BOMB EVF VS OLED?...

[John Marchant]

Agreed, Mark. The EVF just feels "right" to me. It's good to have a secondary monitor, but the EVF is what I use almost all the time.

To be fair, when I shoot off a tripod / monopod in the field I wouldn't want anything else and I grin and bear the IQ. However I spend a disproportionate amount of my time with the camera at the far end of a crane or on a steadicam and the EVF is of zero value then however good it is :)

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

I use my EVF 95% of the time... I like blocking out the world around me and just focusing on the picture. :) but everyone does it differently.

Indeed they do... I come from a stills background, having spent a lot of time pondering over the image in a medium format waist-level finder shooting landscapes. I like the LCD and use it in the same way; mentally stepping back from things, looking at what's beyond the image frame, the discipline and method that comes from that deliberate approach, I think it's a good influence.

Gluing your eye to a viewfinder is for action and sports :-)

Mike

[Mark Toia]

Indeed they do... I come from a stills background, having spent a lot of time pondering over the image in a medium format waist-level finder shooting landscapes. I like the LCD and use it in the same way; mentally stepping back from things, looking at what's beyond the image frame, the discipline and method that comes from that deliberate approach, I think it's a good influence.

Gluing your eye to a viewfinder is for action and sports :-)

Mike

I rest my case :)

[Paul Kalbach]

I'm a center of front row cinema kind of guy and I like my eye glued to my EVF. I would need to wear reading glasses if I had to rely on the LCD for focus. However, I don't shut out the world when I'm viewing through my EVF with right eye. That's what my left eye is for. I keep my left eye open, scanning with my peripheral vision for things that may be happening outside the field of my EVF (as in shooting docs) that I should perhaps pay attention to with my lens. Shooting with an EVF doesn't mean you have to have tunnel vision! BTW, my OLED is 100% better than my original Bomb EVF. On a second note, my original EVF from my REd One never used to work with my Epic; just red flashes. But I just tried it after updating to fw 3.3.3, and now it works! It has very milky blacks though, but goes to show how much firmware updates can change things.

[stu aull]

Still using the original Bomb and am blissfully ignorant of OLED improvements. Figure what I don't know can't hurt me (or my wallet). $1200 I'd rather not spend at the moment and the original is doing everything I need (and I am an Old School Sony Viewfinder guy). Will be curious to see how long RED will offer their upgrade. ("Dear Santa...")

Stu Aull
SX 199
Alaska

[Alvise Tedesco]

I'm considering a BT lcos bomb.
Will I be happy, considering I only tested the original (R1) with my Scarlet and found a perfectly usable image, but big and heavy piece?