Originally posted by mecrox I'm surprised at the amount of resistance to EVFs generally which I put down to innate conservatism.
Not conservatism, but experience: we know what works and don't want that replaced with something which doesn't
To make an analogy - we're replacing the classical book with an electronic equivalent. There are advantages, right? Storage space, don't need to cut trees, and we can do amazing things like web searches, commenting directly from the book's text... Yet we have a problem: the
electronic viewfinders LCD displays just can't match the good old paper in terms of reading comfort.
Thus, the e-ink screen was made: it's purpose being to emulate the good old paper. Quite close, but not perfect.
IMO the reason for the eventual OVF decline would be that young people just wouldn't know what a good OVF looks like.
P.S. (and a bit off-topic) Perhaps the most important advantage of e-books is that Amazon can remotely wipe up your Kindle, if it chooses so. Much easier to do than getting the Police to raid your home and burn your library