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Apart from the benefits of lighter weight the other advantage I find is wysiwg exposure compensation. It takes all the guesswork out of awkward lighting.
Of course, as I have had said ad nauseum....being lighter doesn't have to be smaller. Strangely, our hands haven't got smaller!
It also seems that the designers cannot make something smaller without breaking all the time tested requirements of comfortable feel and easy controls layout. They mask this incapacity by saying it's 'retro' look. Errr...no. It's abandoning the last 50years of body evolution...don't do it!
But the battery is the Achilles heal. Its workload has been added to immensly with the EVF. Using bigger or more batteries isn't the answer...that just adds back the weight, gained from removing the mirror and pentaprism. As does the need for a grip to house the extra batteries....albeit now more handleable ....like a DSLR!
I also have doubts that the EVF freeze, when writing files to card, will ever be sorted unless some kind of dual parallel processor/circuitry is incorporated to separate the live sensor display from saving the last image.
Last edited on Sun Jul 22nd, 2018 12:18 by Eric
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