Originally posted by Laurentiu Cristofor What are the facts supporting this statement? Experience with the laggy Live View in Pentax cameras?
The E-M5 EVF can work at a 120fps refresh rate. I use it at 60fps, because that is good enough for me. The sensor information is actually processed at 240fps.
240fps is pretty close to being perceptually close to reality. I've since tried the OM-D, and whilst a fine little construction, I can appreciate how it is not for everyone.
Quote: Technology has always been about allowing people to do things with devices instead of acquiring skills and doing heavy work.
I wonder if that's the same expectation for doctors, nurses and laboratory workers - develop gadgets and machines to do the work instead of acquiring the necessary analytic and technical skills to master their vocation. Whilst photography is no life-or-death craft, your statement assumes technical and experiential skill of the photographer can take a back seat to more sophisticated gear which will do the thinking for them.
Good luck with that.
There's an intuitive aspect to the creation of a work of photographic art, just as there is to the diagnostic and practical skills of a good health care worker. Letting smarter machines to do the analytic work for the practitioner leaves little room for human intuition, which has proven invaluable (as fallible as it can be).
Quote: Yes, it did. Big indeed. No more guesswork about focus, exposure, or DOF appearance.
Again, experiential learning of the craft no longer needs guess work - all exposure settings are calculated based on knowledge and desired personal effect.
Saying that an EVF greatly improves productivity says more about the photographer than it does about the camera (this forum has a long history of
discussions and
debates on whether the gear makes the photographer)
Quote: Now try the same with a K-5. Or even better, with a K-x.
I don't get it. Pentax OVFs have been just fine to date. Professionals use the K-5, K-7, K20D, K10D and have had no problems getting the results they needed with them through the so terrible OVFs.
Even the K-x and K-r VFs are fine to compose and shoot through. I can't see the difficulty you claim there is with APS-C VFs. The APS-C matte display may not be as big and bright as an old FF VF, but it sure isn't blurry to my eyes, and I've had no issues with critical focusing.
Quote: You hardly need either of these to know or confirm the virtue of a piece of equipment that has served many a photographer, even at the professional level, very well in getting the images that sell and please others. What we don't seem to have a shortage of is the same naysaying that ostentatiously critical members here have been vocalising from day 1.