LCD-display-as-a-viewfinder idiotic?

[JDArt]

Originally Posted by Paul

Hey, I resemble that remark !

LOL. Love it every time I hear it.

[Paul Shields]

Originally Posted by JDArt

LOL. Love it every time I hear it.

It just gets funnier and funnier - apart from one guy in the office who says it at least once a day. Justifiable homicide would be my defence.

[scoundrel1728]

Here is a crop of a low-light shot I took at a friend's house where I accidentally got myself into the shot. Posted here to show some of the things I do with my LCD monitor. Exposure was 8 seconds with nary a tripod in sight, but the side of a wall partition came in handy...

[Rokcet Scientist]

Originally Posted by bauerman

Well Rocket Scientist - we now have our first DSLR with live preview - The Oly E-330.* Very interesting development - now even DSLR users are going to be irritating you with their holding the camera out in front of them rather than using that perfectly usable optical viewfinder!

Jared

Quite so! Time to go. Thanks for the rope.

But seriously, I think I'll die laughing if I see somebody do that...

[Mr. Pickles]

Nice knowin' ya....because some du-fass will do it. Probably be right in front of some historic landmark. Lets make a pact to clobber the first one we see do it.

[cyclohexane]

Wow, we all must be thinking alike.* When I saw the announcement for the E-330, I was wondering how I'd react to seeing someone use it with the LCD, and where I'd see it first.

[scoundrel1728]

I might do something like that just to irritate you...

[Mr. Pickles]

That figgers

[Rokcet Scientist]

Originally Posted by scoundrel1728

I might do something like that just to irritate you...

Like wasting space by including all those useless empty lines, you mean?
Yeah, that works.

[Narsuitus]

When shooting candids at social events with a digital viewfinder camera, I prefer to turn the LCD off because it seems to shorten the lag time between shots. However, when shooting in dim light, too often I would miss that quick grab shot because my timing was thrown off due to difficulty finding that small viewfinder eyepiece in the dark. At times like this, I prefer to use the LCD display.

[Kevin Barrett]

I'm an idiot. Some shots are just not feasible any other way.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Originally Posted by Kevin Barrett

I'm an idiot. Some shots are just not feasible any other way.

I can hardly disagree with you there, Kevin...
Especially because this topic is not about 'some' shots. This topic is about 98% of shots! A.k.a. snapshots! A gazillion of them! The ones your auntie May takes. And your nextdoor neighbor.
So, indeed, you're barking up the wrong tree here.

[Kevin Barrett]

Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist

I can hardly disagree with you there, Kevin...
Especially because this topic is not about 'some' shots. This topic is about 98% of shots! A.k.a. snapshots! A gazillion of them! The ones your auntie May takes. And your nextdoor neighbor.
So, indeed, you're barking up the wrong tree here.

Nah, if it works for my Auntie and she's taking pictures - More power to this technique!

[scoundrel1728]

Originally Posted by bauerman

Olympus seems to be betting quite a bit of money that DSLR users are going to want to use the LCD display as a viewfinder as well.......

Does that mean that Olympus and/or their customers are idiots? Or is Oly on to something? That's one problem with explosive rhetoric, such as calling people who differ in their mindset and the way they do things "idiotic" - it sometimes blows up in your face.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Amen!

[Paul Shields]

Originally Posted by scoundrel1728

Does that mean that Olympus and/or their customers are idiots? Or is Oly on to something? That's one problem with explosive rhetoric, such as calling people who differ in their mindset and the way they do things "idiotic" - it sometimes blows up in your face.

I don't think Olympus or their users are idiots, and really admire what this company has done with the 4/3rds system (I'm an Oly fanboy though...). The new E-330 is interesting but seems a little flawed for me (just based on reading the specs and how it will function).

Hopefully it will sell, and I really wouldn't mind live LCD views in their 'pro' camera that is due to replace the E-1 that I currently cherish - so long as it was optional to a good viewfinder and didn't compromise the quality.

Today I was down on the beach and shooting very low to the ground perspective shots - something like this would have made that job a whole lot easier.

[dvdowns]

I would agree that if my D70 had an optional lcd viewfinder that tilted , it would be very useful in my low-to-the-ground shots that I sometimes do on the beach or photographing mushrooms with a nice background , though I wouldn't use it for 99% of my shots , if they have the technology and it doesn't get in the way of quality - why not ? [ I would still be dubious of hiring a wedding photographer who only used the lcd to compose shots though ]