If Panasonic can do it others can - evf on a p&s

[GaryLH]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2014/0...urce=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_12

The zs40 is so small yet comes w/ an evf. Of course w/o more knowledge about how good it really is... Still to put an 18mp size sensor into a small p&s body that can house a 24-720 zoom and still find room for an evf!!!! Not that I am interested currently in the zs40.. I have had the zs family cameras in the past. They have been pretty good cameras, but these new models w/ such big zoom ranges I wonder about. The last one I bought was maybe 4-5 years ago. My rx100 replaced it.

Would love to see them add a built in evf on their lx series.

Gary

 

[enero]

Maybe this is the beginning of a standard for them and hopefully other brands. I too would love to see an EVF on their LX series. Not having a VF was ultimately why I moved away from that line of point and shoots.

Problem is, I think, that 90% of consumers out there dont give a rats ass about VFs. But maybe since EVFs are more useful than dummy RF's on modern PnS's, and EVF components are getting cheaper to source, companies will start putting them on their higher-end pocketables anyway. Just for the few of us who actually care 🙂

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Thanks for mentioning this. I carry a TZ40 (ZS30 in the US) on my belt, almost everywhere I go. I also keep a pair of G2s as my "going for a walk" kit.

If the ZS40 (to be called the TZ60 in Europe) keeps the same build and image quality as its predecessor and adds the same EVF as the G2, I shall be very, very likely to trade up.

I like what I can do with the TZ series...

 

[CactusJuice]

Problem is, I think, that 90% of consumers out there dont give a rats ass about VFs.

That would be me 🙂 I carry and use my small cameras a lot because they are...well, small.

 

[btgc]

Travel camera, they realize good part of travel photographs are made under shining sun and what this means to readability of LCD.

 

[daveleo]

Maybe this is the beginning of a standard for them and hopefully other brands. I too would love to see an EVF on their LX series. Not having a VF was ultimately why I moved away from that line of point and shoots.

. . . . . 🙂

This is my story too. I sold my LX3 (I loved its output) because I need a VF and an EVF is okay with me. I miss that camera a LOT ! Hope they integrate an EVF in that design line.

 

[Rodchenko]

I, too, sold an LX3 because I wanted a VF. This camera certainly looks impressive, and Panasonic continue to innovate.

 

[biomed]

I used to shoot with an EVF on my LX5. I gave the camera to my son a couple of months. I kind of miss it, maybe I should look into .... no, I must resist.

Mike

 

[Rodchenko]

Now I use a decent EVF on my Pen and XZ-1, I barely use the screen, and would happily have playback solely on the EVF. Just like a couple of the commenters in the DF2 thread, I'm now converted from not seeing the value of EVF to no longer wanting a vulnerable and ugly glass screen on the back of the camera. There's simply no point any more in my opinion. If I had a VF-4 rather than a VF-2, I would probably use the EVF full time, and I do wish that Olympus had incorporated a VF into the Pen EP-5 like Panasonic did with the GX7.

 

[jsrockit]

They've also had this one out for quite awhile now...

http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/DMC-LF1K

 

[DNG]

Glad to see that P/S EVF is not totally gone...
Only a handful of P/S still include one..
Not a new design... but, more models could include them in higher end versions.

Just wish it had a 1/1.7" sensor instead of a 1/2.3" sensor...
But... at ISO 200-400 it should do Okay in RAW.

 

[btgc]

Just wish it had a 1/1.7" sensor instead of a 1/2.3" sensor...

probably because of long lens

 

[Frank Petronio]

Haven't manufacturers been putting EVFs in their cameras for ten years or so? I remember a few Sonys with crude ones in the mid-2000s. Not to mention all the video cameras.

Yes if the old LX series had small EVFs a few years ago they would have been very popular. Right now I like having the removable EVF on a GX1, I can keep the camera compact or add it on depending on the situation.

 

[DNG]

Haven't manufacturers been putting EVFs in their cameras for ten years or so? I remember a few Sonys with crude ones in the mid-2000s. Not to mention all the video cameras.

I have an Olympus SP350 from 2011, that has an EVF...kinda small though... like looking through a Leica LTM peep hole

 

[GaryLH]

Back a while back.. They had crude ones.. Or ovf w/ led over lays. I think they slowly started to stop adding them for cost reduction purpose.. But the evf back then were pretty crude.. Not good at catching movement. They also tended to be placed in bigger p&s bodies.

The Panasonic series that has this evf is small by comparison.

Gary