Originally posted by crewl1 When you see an object at a distance you want to take a picture of, the field of view with a long lens on the Q is very small and it can be time consuming to acquire the object.
The finder helps because you can adjust the internal pointer to show the area the lens is capturing, so you are in fact pre-aiming the shot by looking through the finder.
This principle can be used for birds in flight, without the Q because if you use auto focus you can easily track the flying bird with the finder while pressing the shutter and the camera is capturing the bird through the telephoto lens.
So, just for my clarification, instead of using the camera VF, I would track using the Red Dot scope? Not using a scope before, how does this differ from using the VF for viewing. I am not a Pentax owner, but don't hold it against me
, I am a m4/3 user with frustration with getting BIF photos.