JCristina (aka Joseph Cristina) is a small and not very known
Youtuber that I stumbled upon recently. I watched one of his latest videos
talking about the upcoming rumored Nikon Z5. I had to chuckle when I
saw how he explained the OVF and EVF. At 5:32 he says:
Remember, the EVF is our augmented reality. In the past we had our OVF, when you look through the camera you see out of the lens and what you see is not what you get, right? You had to actually set things before you got them right after the fact when you looked at the back, when you chimped at the back of the camera, right? Now the EVF is your augmented reality, virtual reality, however you set the camera up, when you look through the EVF, that's exactly what you gonna get when you pull the trigger. [...] What you see is what you get.Here is the video that he made:
First of all, he doesn't even understand the concept of
augmented reality (or AR), a term he loves to throw around several
times. This is the definition of AR:
a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view
of the real world, thus providing a composite view.
The closest we came to AR in EVFs is Fuji's hybrid EVF in cameras like the
Fuji X100 Series (a camera I owned), but even that wasn't pure AR, it just used a bit of
the concept. Moving on, the OVF as well as the EVF are not actual
representations of what you will get in the finished RAW file. Each of them
have their strengths and weaknesses, but you can't say EVFs will give you
exactly what you see when you pull the trigger.
Why EVFs are not accurate either
The basic distinction between the OVF and the EVF is that the OVF shows you
what the lens sees, the EVF shows you what the sensor sees. But both of them
are not actual representations of what you'll get at the end when you press
the shutter button. Both are merely approximations. Most EVFs do not have
the exact same resolution as the final image, nor do they have the color
accuracy and other attributes that the sensor produces. This is the first
issue. The second issue is EVF lag. You'll never be able to click the exact
moment you see in the EVF, because the reality happened a few milliseconds
before you click. Now EVFs have gotten better over time, but this is one of
the main reasons why they are not popular with action and wildlife
photographers, because these are environments where every split second
matters. Nothing can beat the OVF here that has no lag at all. The third
issue is even most consumer monitors don't actually represent the full RAW
image well, especially when it comes to cameras with higher resolutions,
like your Nikon Z7s and Sony A7R IVs. And full resolution is just one big
problem, accurate colors is another. I really wish these photography
Youtubers would put a bit more thought into these things, especially those
who try to become big and have sponsors.
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