Brian SD
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+1. Also, not many of the compact digital cameras have a viewfinder that is accurate or really makes much of a difference from just using the screen. They aren't real viewfinders, such as the ones on DSLR,s.
I agree with you. There has been plenty of great photography done with sunny 16 and zone focusing. The core of the genre of street photography (as practiced by Leica/RF geeks at least) is viewfinder ambivalence.
This is not to say that the arms-extended, look-at-the-screen method of digicamera use is a sought-after ideal, but a look-through optical viewfinder isn't an essential thing if you are trained to parse your field of view according to lens perspectives. I've tried out a viewfinderless Bessa L rangefinder using superwide primes, and it works fine. In fact, it can be easier *not* to use a viewfinder with superwides on the Bessa L, since you can then turn your attention to a shoe mount bubble level.
Well obviously you can use a camera in different ways than holding it up to your face, I'm just saying that using the LCD screen to take pictures makes you a tourist, not a photographer. Yes, viewfinders are useless on the compact P&S cameras. It's not even a real viewfinder since it doesn't give you an actual representation of what you're shooting. That's one of the reasons why compact P&S's suck.