X100...Why A Hybrid Finder?

[______]

So you dislike EVFs and instead want to use the LCD screen instead. I hate to break it to you, but the LCD screen is an EVF, just larger and on the back of the camera.

 

[Highway 61]

Photographying is something very personal, so there is indeed a fair amount of personal bias in how you feel with a camera.

What, for me, distinguishes the Fuji from its competition (besides its superb lens and sensor) is the OVF.

Yet, despite all my efforts to get used to it (a friend loaned his X100 to me for a while and I was disappointed to discover that the X100s was of no improvement re. that matter) I find it fairly unaccurate at all distances, and I know that this will be enough for me to dislike it.

I know for sure that I won't use the EVF (my eyes don't like EVFs, but looking at a screen from some distance is fine for them).

And I know for sure that I would end up with using the screen only if I became the owner of an X100s.

So why would I buy a "three options for framing" camera now that I'm sure that I would use one option only ?

That makes plenty of sense. For me, of course.

 

[jsrockit]

Fair enough Highway 61...

 

[______]

Get an E-M1/A1. It has the rear panel viewfinder you prefer as its only option, and is substantially less expensive.

 

[douglasf13]

Photographying is something very personal, so there is indeed a fair amount of personal bias in how you feel with a camera.

What, for me, distinguishes the Fuji from its competition (besides its superb lens and sensor) is the OVF.

Yet, despite all my efforts to get used to it (a friend loaned his X100 to me for a while and I was disappointed to discover that the X100s was of no improvement re. that matter) I find it fairly unaccurate at all distances, and I know that this will be enough for me to dislike it.

I know for sure that I won't use the EVF (my eyes don't like EVFs, but looking at a screen from some distance is fine for them).

And I know for sure that I would end up with using the screen only if I became the owner of an X100s.

So why would I buy a "three options for framing" camera now that I'm sure that I would use one option only ?

That makes plenty of sense. For me, of course.

Have you spent much time shooting rangefinders in the past? With AF frame correct on, the X100/X100s frame lines show about 93% of the scene, which is actually pretty good for a non-TTL, rangefinder-like viewfinder. If you want an accurate viewfinder, you have to go with a TTL viewfinder, like an EVF or SLR's OVF.

 

[gavinlg]

They could be ; but they aren't.

WRONG again, they are adjusted according to distance. Both in parallax AND size. Stop spreading mis-information.

No optical viewfinder camera is particularly accurate for framing. Not leicas, not hexar AF, not GF670, not contax G. If you want pinpoint accuracy use a DSLR. Simple.