"David J Taylor"
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Ståle Sannerud wrote:
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An EVF camera won't do much for low-light shooting though, will it? I
mean, they are basically just a typically tiny point-and-shoot camera
sensor wrapped in a DSLR-styled body after all.

An EVF can help a lot in low-light conditions, as they can provide a gain
not possible with the optical viewfinders in DSLRs and other cameras. You
can almost see things in the EVF which are difficult to see with the naked
eye! But not all cameras offer the "gain-up" viewfinder mode required for
this.

David

The EVF will pump the light-gain like crazy, so I agree that the view
through the viewfinder will be bright and nice. Very true.

But the images captured by the sensor and stored on the memory card will
still suck, with massive point-and-shoot-sensor ISO noise (alternatively
over-processed buttery-soft images due to equally massive noise reduction
done to mask the ISO noise). And that's what matters in photography, yes?