Question about the Canon Rebel XTi

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: randomlinh
some people need to read the thread... the OP was getting drilled after he already admitted he didn't quite understand SLR's... heh.

But it's more fun to bash somebody for 15 pages, even if they corrected their mistake on the third post of the thread.

Not really, but im the sure the OP will be glad he wasn't the only one who thought so.

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy


I am surprised that there hasn't been more progress toward a mainstream EVF yet, I guess there have to be some serious technical / engineering issues to overcome.

The camera is definitely not a 'junker' in the sense of it's quality or capability, it's just missing (what is to me) a big feature.

It's getting there. It's sort of like when digital cameras first started coming out, it was useful but you could get better quality from traditional film (or in this case optical view finders). Give it a few more years for the technology to mature, there is a market for EVF/live preview from DSLRs, even Canon has released a DSLR with live preview (limited usefulness due to technical limitations) and Zigview makes a mini camera and LCD that attaches to the eye piece so you can get a tiltable LCD.

Konica-Minolta A2 used to have what was regarded as the best EVF, 640x480, and the way the implemented manual focus was very easy to use (half shutter press makes the imaged zoomed so you can check focus, I found it more precise it much more precise than just plain optical). Hopefully Sony inherited some of that and plans to use it in the future.