Nikon Watch

Xitek forums have a post that shows an unreleased Sony Alpha with a flip-out LCD.

I know a lot of people poo-poo this and I know that Hoodman has a crazy LCD extender if you want one (not cheap either), but this really needs to be built-in (as far as I’m concerned), especially now that we have live-view.

I’ve gotten a lot of really nice shots with my Canon Powershot G3 solely because I was able to flip the screen and point it at people without them realizing it. Their reactions later are always, “I didn’t even know you had a camera at that event!” and I miss being able to do that.

Another option (as I’ve suggested before) is to have the top-plate LCD  function similarly to the back LCD and show you a small version of what you’d see on the rear LCD when in live-view mode. But I’m betting the bean-counting MBA’s will squash this idea for another few years.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 12:29 am and is filed under The Competition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.