Nikon Coolpix LCD is crap in daylight

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Chris Malcolm wrote:
Mike S. wrote:

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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 :-)

Perhaps there is an issue with color rendition on transflective screens;
but honestly, using the camera on my phone things look accurate enough to
me. Of course, things change when direct sunlight is falling on the
screen; but frankly I'd much rather put up with colors that change a
little in the sun than have to cope with a screen that becomes totally
unviewable under the same circumstances.