Originally posted by Lowell Goudge As many have mentioned, for low light, nothing beats an optical viewfinder,
Originally posted by RioRico That depends on how low is the light. I find that LV on all my digicams normalizes light levels, dimming the bright and amplifying the dim.
Although the light level is "normalized" and I cant argue that point, my experience with Electronic Viewfinders in low light is that the image noise is so high, that the image is almost impossible to identify out of the noise.
I will however conceed that as sensors improve this is becoming less of an issue, and in extreme cases the amplification might actually help in seeing something out of nothing, but I am not yet convinced that an electronic viewfinder is yet at the quality of an optical one for low light.
Also, when manually focusing the sharper although dim image in the viewfinder is easier to deal with than a noisy one on the LCD and AF still struggles in low light with live view