Electronic viewfinders are used on some cameras where an optical viewfinder would be impractical or undesirable. In the past, the quality of EVFs has been pretty low, but Epson has announced a new 800 x 600 pixel screen which could [...]
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‘Box’ on top an SLR which reflects the image into the eyepiece. When an SLR lens creates the image on the focussing screen inside the camera body, the image is the wrong way round (it’s a characteristic of lenses) and [...]
Adjusting the focus of a camera viewfinder via a wheel or slider next to the eyepiece so that you can focus clearly and easily on the image. This is not the same as focussing the camera, although until the viewfinder [...]
Accessory which lets you look through a viewfinder from above. Useful with digital SLRs when the camera has to be placed low to the ground and it’s difficult to get down to look through the viewfinder.
You use the LCD on the back for composing pictures with most compact cameras these days, but some still come with viewfinders, where you put your eye to an eyepiece instead. And this is still the usual way of composing [...]