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>>96488 >these camera are made for auto focus
Problem #1. Having autofocus doesn't preclude having a great viewfinder for manually focusing. Some of us prefer it, and all of us need to use it at one point or another unless we totally avoid low-light situations.
>they are also much smaller (except for FF) than film cameras
Yeah, and? 35mm film was much smaller than medium format, and plenty of 35mm cameras have great viewfinders. And modern 35mm SLRs have worse viewfinders than ones made years ago.
This in fact makes my main gripe about viewfinders easier to satisfy: digital needs full coverage, and here the D300 is a huge step in the right direction. The old excuses about slide mounts and labs never print he whole frame don't apply anymore.
They can give us better viewfinders. They won't because people aren't asking for them or going "damn, it NICE" about how the D300 has full coverage. Instead they're asking for talking about things like noise performance at ISOs people probably won't even use too much, autofocus points, frames per second, and (of all things) LCD screens that have nothing to do with the process of taking a photograph unless you're in live view. Besides the sensor, the absolute most expense and engineering effort ought to go into the viewfinder when designing a camera. It's the actual thing one uses to make the image, and the last or second-to-last thing to be skimped on.
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