Originally posted by shardulm It does.
OVFs are the best you can get. Besides the EVF and LV add a toll on the processor, may cause heat issues, drains battery (the biggest con) pretty fast. I don't see why should the battery power be wasted in another places than the sensor operation, SD R/W operation and the camera operation. It just requires a higher capacity batter and or reduced no of pictures per battery. Besides that the EVF does not aid manual focusing at all. LV and focus peaking does and I use it at times. I also don't agree that it aids composition and if so how. You have 100% fov in the OVF..duh?
EVF and LV are painstakingly slow to use in a fast paced environment like events etc. There is no time to live view and take pictures and the battery dies sooner than you like.
Asking for an EVF instead of an OVF is like asking for a car with a 60" Xtrawide TV screen instead of a transparent glass windshield in the front. <-- yeah imagine that. That is how I feel about not having an OVF.
Well I must have used different EVFs to you, because manual focusing with an EVF is leagues ahead of an OVF for peaking and enlargement.....duh. Plus you get an accurate view of what your exposure will be, no surprises when you press the shutter button.
As I also said, the EVF would help with longer lenses as it would have a stabilized view, unlike the K3-K1 which will be far more difficult with an OVF and no stabilized view through the lens.
I am not concerned about battery life, not on a K1 or 645z as I am a landscape shooter and it wouldn't be any different to using the screen.
Anyway, you all here are so hung up on OVFs and completely unable to see my view and that's fine, it's just the way it is.
Also Shardulm, go and try a canon DSLR with a 100-400 IS II and see how good the stabilizer is for assisting in composition and keeping a stable hand when at 400mm, you might be enlightened as to how good it is and how much we are missing out on in the pentax system in its current form.
For everybody who thinks I am taking a shot at your baby, did anybody fail to see that I complimented it and said I am going to buy one?
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Originally posted by Adam I think a hybrid viewfinder would be amazing, and rather innovative. But for now I'll definite settle for the bendy display. That was also quite clever!
I think you are right Adam, the ability for both would be ok, something hybrid.
You can't deny what Sony are achieving in the AF department on the A7rII and especially the new A6300 for on-sensor autofocus and tracking. Miles ahead of the competition, with real time refresh of the viewfinder in burst mode.
I think the future of the sports camera 1Dx type will be full time on chip AF and no mirror.