Viewfinder examples

[TMP]

Given its battery:

1. The EVF or even EVF's overlays on the OVF will consume a looot of battery…
2. The AF will never be as fast as the Olympus E-Px series or Panasonic GF1… Although, if it is as good as the Ricoh GR D III, that would already be something.

 

[jsrockit]

2. The AF will never be as fast as the Olympus E-Px series or Panasonic GF1… Although, if it is as good as the Ricoh GR D III, that would already be something.

Can you explain why? 😱

 

[tocalosh]

Some different images and information, google translate works ok

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/pview/20110203_424474.html?ref=rss

 

[videogamemaker]

Wow, that is a cool link, thanks tocalosh.

Check out this one: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/424/474/html/118.jpg.html Auto ISO, and it looks like the line for 800 is where you set the maximum ISO it can pick in auto iso. A feature that wasn't confirmed before, but I was very interested in.

 

[videogamemaker]

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/424/474/html/035.jpg.html

Here is an actual shot through the optical viewfinder, showing how opaque the projected info is.

That packaging is pretty nice looking.

 

[Sparrow]

Wow, cluttered or what?

 

[videogamemaker]

That's with lots of extras turned on. Here is the more minimal version. Not sure if you can turn off everything but the frameline, but it does use an ambient light sensor to dim or brighten the display so it's not retina burning.

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/424/474/html/034.jpg.html

 

[Sparrow]

... still not an M2 is it?

 

[jsrockit]

Sparrow, did you really expect it to be like an M2? It's a digital camera...

 

[Sparrow]

... I thought this was a wish list, and somebody would be reporting back to Fuji marketing

 

[Steve_F]

I just want a vf with framelines and meter guide.. That's it. My M6TTL tells me everything I need to know.

Steve.

 

[jsrockit]

I just want a vf with framelines and meter guide.. That's it. My M6TTL tells me everything I need to know.

Steve.

Unfortuantely, it just isn't going to happen with a semi-pro digital (electronic) camera.

 

[Sparrow]

I just want a vf with framelines and meter guide.. That's it. My M6TTL tells me everything I need to know.

Steve.

... could we drop meter?

 

[Steve_F]

Ok. How about an option to turn everything off in the finder except the framelines?

Had a thought. How many of these will have a red dot put on the front? Poor mans M9 fake. 😀

 

[tapesonthefloor]

Exactly, it cannot be absolutely opaque unless the VF finder shutter closes, this is also I guess what that Norwegian guy meant by "double vision".

I have to agree with vgm here, for a second.

 

[Frankie]

How they did get all that info projected on the OVF, do we have that sort of technology?

Using prism to reflect light is a technology that was available way before you were born.

 

[TMP]

Can you explain why? 😱

I based my statement after comparing the voltage of both batteries:

GF1: 7.x V
X100: 3.x V

While the battery of the X100 has to power one and only lens -- compared to the GF1 which has to power many, including zooms --, the GF1 with its 40mm kit lens is optically close to the X100's 35mm (i.e. in the number of elements and size).

Now, I am not a camera engineer so I am definitively out of my lane, yet, I'm pretty sure it's not going to be as fast as the GF1 nor its Pen counterparts. Time will tell.

 

[ampguy]

does anyone know if all of the info can be turned off, except for the shooting area frame?

 

[videogamemaker]

I based my statement after comparing the voltage of both batteries:

GF1: 7.x V
X100: 3.x V

While the battery of the X100 has to power one and only lens -- compared to the GF1 which has to power many, including zooms --, the GF1 with its 40mm kit lens is optically close to the X100's 35mm (i.e. in the number of elements and size).

Now, I am not a camera engineer so I am definitively out of my lane, yet, I'm pretty sure it's not going to be as fast as the GF1 nor its Pen counterparts. Time will tell.

I really don't think battery voltage has much to do with it at all. Total number of shots, maybe, but AF speed is doubtful. Especially since several cameras now have improved their AF speed with firmware only, no battery upgrades, there is at least partially the implementation of technique and technology to do with AF speed, rather than raw electrical power.

I like the minimal view. I want to see all that info. I can especially see the DOF scale becoming like 2nd skin, getting used to judging distances and dialing it in fast. I don't want to take the camera away from my eye to see to change shutter speed or memorize how many clicks I was away from a certain aperture.

 

[videogamemaker]

Couple more observations:

This shot looks like you can set ISO to auto, and the maximum ISO it should be allowed to go to, and the minimum shutter speed.

This shot looks like where you assign what the Fn button controls, and it looks like you have to pick one thing (in this image it's ISO)

Here is where you set the focus ring to work CW or CCW, and whether the AF/AE lock button should do both or just one. (I'm assuming). I like to use the AE button to lock focus, but for exposure to be determined at my recompose, so I like this.

This one is really cool, as it looks like what options you can set the Fn button to control. If auto ISO provides to be useful enough, one could easily use the Fn button for AF changes or the ND filter. I'm assuming this is what the fujiguys meant when they said you could use the Fn button then the jog dial to change the AF area.