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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
"Don Lope de Aguirre" wrote in message ... Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. Or shade the thing with your hand or something. Yes, it's annoying, but on the other hand an optical viewfinder in a compact camera is so wildly inaccurate I'm not sure how much of a loss it really is. I used an LCD-only Coolpix a couple of winters ago in Florida, in the bright mid-day sun, including some situations at the beach, and was able to manage all right with it. |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
On 2009-12-05 23:02:30 -0500, "Don Lope de Aguirre" said:
Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. Before you buy, go to the store on a bright sunlit day and tell the salesperson you won't buy it if they don't walk it outside with you so you can try it in the sunlight. -- Michael |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
George Kerby wrote:
On 12/5/09 10:02 PM, in article , "Don Lope de wrote: Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. If you bought a Canon, you wouldn't have that problem. Did you pay only fifty bucks for that "Crude-Pix"? http://www.nextag.com/canon-sd1200/compare-html Several Canon point-and-shoots have no optical viewfinder, including the new SD 980. Mort |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
M-M wrote:
That's like saying, "My Porsche drives like crap on the ice." P&S need good light, so of course they should work in the sun. It's like saying "My Porsche drives like crap on the road." "on the ice" would be near darkness for P&S cameras. -Wolfgang |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
"George Kerby" wrote in message ... On 12/6/09 11:45 AM, in article , "Neil Harrington" wrote: "George Kerby" wrote in message ... On 12/5/09 10:02 PM, in article , "Don Lope de Aguirre" wrote: Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. If you bought a Canon, you wouldn't have that problem. Did you pay only fifty bucks for that "Crude-Pix"? You're mistaken there, George. Here's the latest Canon Elph, $379.99 and NO OPTICAL VIEWFINDER. http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...ategoryid=145& modelid=18335 Aww! Didja just HAVE to conveniently snip my URL?!? Sorry, George! I usually do snip after my final comment. I'll try to be more considerate in the future. Well, here it is - AGAIN: http://www.nextag.com/canon-sd1200/compare-html Like I said: A buck fifty will get you an optical viewfinder with Canon, as opposed to that over-rated, over-priced Nikon crap. Yes, but not on all Canon models as you seemed to imply. Nikon's abandonment of the optical viewfinder on nearly all Coolpixes is fairly recent. It's not very long ago that I added a really nice little Coolpix P50 to my collection. I think I paid about $150 for mine and got another one for my sister too. Alas, that model has been discontinued and now there doesn't seem to be any Coolpix in the lineup with an OVF except for the pricey P6000 -- which has stuff I neither need nor want, such as GPS and the now usual overload of pixels crammed into its little sensor. All the compact digicam manufacturers seem to be going in the big-LCD-no-OVF direction, like it or not. Canon's newest models *all* come without OVF, except for the G series of course. Likewise all the other makes that I've looked at. It's pretty much the end of an era as far as viewfinders go. |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
"Don Lope de Aguirre" wrote in message
... Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. Or you do what I did with my Kodak Z915: Parallel 2.5" SS250P (UK DSS4 Parallel) 1 29.95 Screen-Shade This I got through Yahoo. |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
In article , Rich wrote: On Dec 5, 11:02*pm, "Don Lope de Aguirre" wrote: Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. All LCDs are crap in sunlight. The LCD displays on my Garmin GPS navigator, and my Nokia smartphone, are perfectly and brilliantly readable in direct sunlight - because the designers took that into account and put a reflective panel behind the LCD. It's called a transflective display - and it's well past high time that camera manufacturers started putting them in digital cameras. |
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Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight
Mike S. wrote:
In article , Rich wrote: On Dec 5, 11:02pm, "Don Lope de Aguirre" wrote: Why do these ****ers put just an LCD for viewing and no viewfinder if the LCD is **** in bright daylight? I have to guess where the subject is and hope for the best. You are dumbasses Nikon! OK, not just Nikon but a lot of camera companies are doing the same thing. You have to pay another $100.00 just to get a P&S with a viewfinder. All LCDs are crap in sunlight. The LCD displays on my Garmin GPS navigator, and my Nokia smartphone, are perfectly and brilliantly readable in direct sunlight - because the designers took that into account and put a reflective panel behind the LCD. It's called a transflective display - and it's well past high time that camera manufacturers started putting them in digital cameras. I suspect the reason they won't is that transflective displays mess with colour rendition. The latest backlit displays are a great advance and perfectly readable in the kind of dismal winter sunlight we get in Scotland just now. It'll be quite some time before I'll find out how they fare in bright summer sunlight :-) -- Chris Malcolm |
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