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Originally Posted by Jack MacDonough
If one were inventing a camera for the next generation, I would figure out how to have a "live view", focus confirmation, and the current viewfinder with electronic finder lines, but no "range finder" window. Dropping the RF window and mechanism has to save space and cost.
Eventually, probably soon, an electronic viewfinder will be high enough quality and cost effective to replace the optical viewfinder. Then it will be the DSLR's having a choice as to keeping the expensive mirror and penta-prism.
Will this be an effective business model? maybe not. But in any case I'm delighted they introduced the M8 as it sure has displaced the need for a giant DSLR on everything but long telephoto shots. And I sure hope they figure out how to keep alive.
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Let's hope so. I'm less sanguine than you are about electronic viewfinders, mainly because of the time-lag between the image of an event's hitting the sensor and its showing up on the display. The electronic finders and live views I've seen so far seem to refresh just a few times a second, which is like doing 'decisive moment' photography with a Thornton Pickard reflex. They'd need to push the frame rate up to 50 or 100 per second to reduce the lag to insignificance: what will this do to battery life and low-light VF performance?
Also, focusing aids on reflex cameras don't seem to work at apertures below about f/5.6, especially in bad light. Does electronic focus measurement at the sensor do any better? If not, the 'electronic RF' will want auto-diaphragm lenses...