Originally posted by Kunzite johnmflores, would you give up on seeing the world directly with your own eyes - but instead, permanently wear a helmet which continuously streams live view data to an integrated 3D EVF? (let's ignore the discomfort)
The idea that one should easily give up seeing with his own eyes the world around us and be happy with an electronic interpretation perplexes me. How would you know how the world is like, if you never saw it?
When I ride or hike to the top of a mountain, I stand there, breathe in the fresh air, admire the beauty and majesty of nature, and then think to myself, "let me capture some aspect of this place to share with others." only then will I take the camera out and use the tools available to me to make a successful image capture.
Likewise, my most successful candids are when I am immersed in a scene, sometimes engaged with the players, sometimes a fly on the wall. Only after being immersed with all of my senses can I successfully photograph it, sometimes looking through an OVF, sometimes through and EVF, and sometimes when the situation warrants it through a rear LCD and the camera positioned discretely.
Composing with photons versus composing with electrons make not a wit of difference in the output, the photo. After all, you can't look at a photo on the wall and discern if it was taken with an EVF or an OVF, can you? So does it matter?
That's just my $.02 though. I have a friend who tried my GH2 and couldn't come to grips with the EVF. Truth told, I prefer the look of the K-5 OVF, but the GH2's EVF offers so many benefits that I'm not willing to dismiss it outright. It did take a while to get used too, but human beings are highly adaptable, aren't we?