You get to see exactly what the lens is seeing, it’s much easier to line up compositional elements, and if you have a depth of field option on your camera, you can stop down the lens and see how much or little DOF you’ll get at your aperture setting.īut there’s a reason why the rangefinder form camera, with it’s completely separate (from the picture-making lens) optical viewfinder has survived over the decades. On the surface, it would seem that a Through The Lens or TTL viewing would always be considered the first choice for the photographer. In that sense, an EVF and using a DSLR’s viewfinder (which is, after all, an optical system – it uses a mirror and prism to project the TTL view to the photographer’s eye) are much closer to each other than a separate optical viewfinder, which does NOT view the image through the lens. The fundamental difference between the OVF and the EVF is really about whether the photographer is looking through the lens (TTL) to compose and frame, or not. When (and when Not) to use the Optical Viewfinder Even today though, it’s a remarkable feature, never matched by Leica on its M series, despite the fact they’ve been around with their rangefinder system for decades. So perhaps we take the hybrid finder with its dual magnification settings in OVF, for granted. The X-Pro1 is, by digital camera standards, an “old” model, and has been around for over three years. While in OVF, if you hold the lever for a few seconds towards the camera grip, it will switch the Optical Viewfinder’s magnification setting. It allows the photographer to see the composition better.Ī quick pull and release of the viewfinder lever switches between the OVF and EVF. For 35mm up to the moderate telephoto’s (like the 56mm/85mm-e, or 60mm/93mm-e), this is a much better setting than the wide 0.37x magnification. A 35mm (or 50mm-e) pretty much fills the view.
The stronger magnification is 0.60x life size. Yes, this setting will also show frame lines for longer focal lengths, but there is a better option. An excellent setting for moderate wides, such as the 18mm and 23mm (35mm-e). This can show frame lines up to 18mm (around a 28mm-e). By holding the camera’s viewfinder switch to the right for a few seconds, the OVF will switch between the two magnifications. The OVF on the X-Pro1 has the further option of two magnification settings. I’ll try and answer those questions in this post.īefore discussing usage in-depth, there’s one more feature to emphasize. While I discussed the ideal situations of when to use the OVF versus the EVF in my article on using the X-Pro1 for street photography, I’ve received a few questions for further details.
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