I have been using a film camera for years and now want to try out these new slim, megapixel digital cameras. I don't understand why most manufacturers no longer include an optical viewfinder in their cameras. I know they've substituted a small screen but this means you have to get batteries and for me looking at a screen is an inferior option to looking through a viewfinder. Also I need glasses to read and it would mean fiddling with my glasses. I know in the reviews they talk of parallax with the viewfinder but I never had a problem in getting the exact picture using an optical viewfinder.
I was going to buy a Panasonic TZ4 or TZ5 but they seem to have abandoned including the viewfinder. So I think I'll go for one of the Canons Ixus 85 IS which got good reviews and has the best of both worlds an optical viewfinder and a screen if I need to use it.
I was going to buy a Panasonic TZ4 or TZ5 but they seem to have abandoned including the viewfinder. So I think I'll go for one of the Canons Ixus 85 IS which got good reviews and has the best of both worlds an optical viewfinder and a screen if I need to use it.
Its quite a good little camera as well...