First DSLR with real-time LCD viewing

Are Olympus just trying to sell a few more of the ugliest DSLR ever made, or is this a new chapter opening?
I haven't read how they're acheiving this, but if someone could develop a high-res real-time LCD along with a high-res EVF, then the mirror and prism would become obsolete.

I'm just going to copy and paste what I said about it on another forum:

Not to be a turd, but how useful is this live preview REALLY going to be for those digicammers? It can't be used with autofocus (how many digicammers really use manual focus?), and there are quite a few mirrors in there that could go out of alignment (maybe). Even if a digicammer does want to manual focus...how easy is it really going to be on the LCD? Pretty difficult I'd imagine to hold the camera out, steady, watch LCD, compose, MF, press shutter...

I'm guessing the live preview won't be for catching fleeting moments...but then isn't that what a lot of dSLRs are for (when quality is king)? And isn't it also why people buy P&S cams? To capture moments when the moment is more important than lugging the gear?

I can see people buying it thinking it's the greatest thing since sliced bread....and then getting frustrated by it.

I think using the screen to frame your image will be slower, and it'll be harder to hold the camera steady. Sure if it was a feature I might use it a for a few shots (eg camera held way up in the air or way down by the ground), but i'd not pay extra for it.

I think it is a great idea. If the LCD screen swings out and swivels, it opens up a lot of useful shooting positions that I use for street photography. Also, live preview is great for exposure control, as you can set it to see where parts of the pic are clipping, without having to check the histogram.

Forget the LCD live preview, and give us live histogram in the viewfinder. Yesss.

Now *that* would be worth upgrading for!

Yeah but only if the dang viewfinder is a LOT larger. I have enough trouble seeing through my XT tunnel to compose...let alone look at a histogram!

LETS DISCUSS: D-SLR w/ live preview.

So with the introduction of the Oly EVOLT E-330, it seems that live preview on an SLR body is doable.........

And I am not going to lie, as much as I like the "traditional" looking-in-the viewfinder-to-compose-a-shot method........there is something freeing and liberating about shooting with a flip-out LCD on many occasions......

Any thoughts??

Yay or nay??

Ro1

If it did not hinder the camera's performance in ANY way, then I would say go for it, but I would take a live histogram in the viewfinder over a live preview lcd anyday. Nothing like seeing the scene first hand, and not from a video camera. I'd think it would be hard to make the camera have absolutely NO effect on the image you see on the lcd, though.

I can't get the link to work but man that would be cool.

Incidentally, that link gives the preview for the right page down at the bottom of the screen, but when you click on it, it goes to microsoft.com.

OOPPSS.!!!.........fix​ed!!!

Ro1

Um, the camera looks pretty sweet to me.

Nice, but it looks as much like a dslr as the sony f828 does.

Ronald S. Jr. wrote:
Nice, but it looks as much like a dslr as the sony f828 does.

Nobody can deny that it is UGLY!!! But I'm sure it won't be long before the Canon 1 series cameras will have this feature.............

Ro1