Just when popular prejudice is running to internal viewfinders as a matter of course, one enthusiast in China has gone to a great deal of trouble to castrate his Sony A7, turning it into the point and shoot he’d always wanted. He seems to have done a good job, after sawing and filing and repainting. Some manufacturers, notably Leica with the TL2, have done the job for him — but at least they give you the option of adding a finder at a later date. Perhaps this is a new fashion?
The biggest issue for me with the EVF for the M10 is that it vari-angles, to quote John, just when I don’t want it to do this. Thus it has a piece of Blu -Tack in it now to stop it from doing this. Leica needs to get back to the drawing board on this.
Two more points. Firstly, most photographs taken on this planet today will be taken without an eye level viewfinder of any kind. Secondly, I had fun yesterday using a Rolleiflex (remember them). For some shots I did use the flip up magnifier. You can get an eye level finder for some Rolleiflex models, but it is a large clunky thing. The point I am making here is that for many years in the past most photographs on the planet were not taken with eye level finders. Brownies, anyone?
William
Brilliantly executed design improvement – but it’s difficult to create a DYI add-on vari-angle EVF, which would have been the crowning achievement. I shall become a bore if I repeat myself too often in pleading for vari-angle EVFs and vari-angle LCDs: fixed built in EVF is better than nothing, so we don’t have to do all composing at arm’s length, but those of us in our eighth decade like help to take a lower angle without needing help to get up on our feet again!
Hmmm, I definitely want a built-in EVF in my camera. 😉 This is pretty extreme… but I also disliked that fake prism bulbous thing on the Sony A7 series.