seditious, but i really like composing on lcd ...

[daveleo]

I prefer one of these 🙂

. . . .

That gizmo must have a hidden drive motor to work with a zoom lens ?

😉

 

[Pastor Chris]

It's ok Paul, I am fully convicted that a little heresy is good for the should every now and again.

With all of the responses referring to the LCD screen as a ground glass, I am going to have to re-evaluate my disdain for folks who walk around using their iPads as cameras maybe I'll attach a focusing cloth to mine and pretend that I'm using a large field camera.

Here is a idea for someone! A few manufacturers are making plastic snap on cases for iPhones to make them look like rangefinders, how about a giant plastic box that makes your iPad look like a field camera!

 

[grantb]

I've only started using rangefinders recently, primarily using micro 4/3 before that. Now I keep putting my E-P3 up to my face!

 

[sig]

Wait and see, after photokina/m10 it might even be accepted here at RFF to use the lcd.

 

[jky]

Yep! I enjoy it as well. The LCD has allowed me to get different perspectives that I wouldn't get looking through a ovf/EVF. LCDs are very good nowadays re: response. The only thing I'm still not too fond of is the longer-than-I'd-like blackout when the camera takes a picture.

 

[sevres_babylone]

I like composing on the LCD. With my GRD3, I compose that way 80% of the time. I do have the optical viewer. When I don't compose on the LCD, it is usually because I can't see it in bright sun (a situation made worse by the deteriorating coating.)

 

[back alley]

the sony rx100 has 'white' pixels which makes the screen brighter/easier to see in sunlight.
i predict that many screens in the future will be easier to view in the bright light.

it would be great if the sony had a screen that moved...

 

[paulfish4570]

the flipout lcd is a feature on the nex-5n and other digitals that i really like; i do NOT like to get on my knees or my belly when i don't have to do so; hurts to get down there and hurts worse to get back up ... 🙂
as for bright sun, i dig the x100's hybrid viewfinder.

 

[n5jrn]

When I used film SLR's almost exclusively for taking photos of wildflowers, I always pooh-poohed the idea of using the preview screen to compose on a camera with an eye-level viewfinder, until I got an OM-D E-M5 and discovered how much easier it can be to compose using the screen instead of with one's face against the ground on a macro shot of some tiny flower.

That's maybe 10% of the shots I take, but for that 10% it's great to have the choice of two ways of composing a shot.

 

[Jamie Pillers]

An LCD just isn't the same as ground glass, even when I pull a dark cloth over my head. If only I could set the LCD upside down and backwards . . .

Just wait a month or two and there'll be an 'app' that'll do that for you. 😛

 

[Shutterspark]

I'm quite fond of composing with the LCD, it gives me more freedom ie. I don't have to contort my neck/back, lie on the ground or use a right angle finder to do low angle shots. It's also less conspicuous when you're not covering your face.

 

[Lss]

anybody favor lcd over ovf, evf or slr screen?

Mostly static subjects with camera on tripod is where the screen works for me. For any sort of action, removing myself from the scene is too big a lag. There are times when one must use the screen even under these circumstances (other option being shooting blindly), but it's not a preference for me.

 

[steveniphoto]

to each his own but i cant do it. i need a vf of some sort. i use my iphone as a camera quite often but its just not the same without a vf.

 

[paulfish4570]

i only came to this conclusion after getting these eyeglasses, then building a relationship with the x100 lcd over the past three months or so.

 

[Shutterspark]

i only came to this conclusion after getting these eyeglasses, then building a relationship with the x100 lcd over the past three months or so.

+1
I totally overlooked that aspect in my reply. I like WLFs in film cameras because I hate wearing glasses when shooting, and diopters aren't always available.

 

[Godfrey]

I have optical SLRs, TTL electronic cameras, RFs, scale focus only cameras with viewfinders, EVF cameras, and most of my electronic cameras have an LCD focusing screen too.

They're all useful to me. The X2 and GXR both have the option of LCD, EVF and optical viewfinder. They all work great, in the right circumstances ... and they all fail in certain circumstances.

I've been using the X2 continuously since I received it. I have an optical viewfinder fitted, and find I use it about 40-50% of the time. Otherwise, I use the LCD. I also have the EVF but haven't used it much yet.

Godfrey

 

[jesse1dog]

With a 'simple' fixed LCD camera like my Lumix LX1 I have a 'Clearviewer' attached, one of the fold up ones. Bright light, no great problem, and I can focus and compose on the screen. What I see, is what I get - more or less! Without the 'Clearviewer' I wouldn't be able to use the camera. Usually I need glasses for reading and close work. I would need glases to use the screen if I held it away from my face. 'Clearviewer' solves the problem and I don't need to put on my glasses. I've just ordered a second for my Lumix GF1.
Conclusion - might be worth some of you other guys having a look at the device - over to you.

jesse