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>>57123 >Handling doesn't matter if the camera's left at home because it's a nice day and you're not wearing a jacket.
Well, true. But that's what compact camera bags are for, and I find it's always a good idea to bring some sort of jacket with one; photography or not (I did it before I was into photography, too) it give some extra storage space, can quickly change one's appearance or cover up stains and tears, and comes in handy if a building has overly harsh air conditioning.
>If you really want to be old-school and hold it up to your eye, they've got a viewfinder for that. One that probably isn't much corrected at all for parallax error.
>>57124 >have some sort of stabilization built into them Usually digital stabilization, which I understand has a negative impact on image quality.
>lens steady is unnecessary most of the time. The idea of holding the lens- on a fixed lens or interchangeable lens camera, of any focal length- isn't just to stabilize the lens itself. The lens is a remarkably good handhold for stabilizing the camera body, too.
>And don't get started on the EVF. I love electronic viewfinders. Granted, most of them are shitty, but when well-executed an EVF is superior to an SLR viewfinder. One can quickly switch between display options, without having to remove the whole viewfinder and put it back in; the screen shows exposure in advance, allowing a more natural setting of exposure than a metering reading alone and chimping afterwards; most EVFs offer one or more increased magnification modes to ease manual focusing, whereas an SLR's viewfinder magnification has to be a compromise between fitting the whole frame in and making manual focusing easy.
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