Fuji Hybrid Viewfinder

No matter how good a camera might be, its viewfinder is often a deal-braker.

Optical viewfinders offer the best image quality and clarity, but are unable to show the wide array of information photographers want when shooting photos; electronic viewfinders offer such features, but at a cost of reduced image quality and color rendition.

That's why FUJI has tried to come up with a better solution, and created the Hybrid Viewfinder for the Finepix X100.


The X100 offers tow viewfinder modes, easily selectable at the flick of a switch: a optical viewfinder, and an electric viewfinder

However, th trick it that instead of an illuminated optical viewfinder, they use a complete high-resolution LCD screen to create a digital information layer that is overlayed on the optical image itself - offering the best of both worlds.

Hard to imagine no one had come up with this idea before! :)

Viewfinder - Photosynth on Google Earth?

Viewfinder offers a new and very interesting way to connect Flicker to Google Earth, but it's impossible to see the following video and not think about Microsoft Lab's own Photosynth.



Similar, but not quite the same. With viewfinder you can perfectly align your photos over a 3D environment like Google Earth.

• Google Earth has posed several hundred photos in Google Earth and has 4.5 million geo-located more photos to go;
• Microsoft PhotoSynth has an impressive way of automatically combining sets of photos from the same area but with no underlying 3D model and cannot handle most photos taken under arbitrary conditions;
• Yahoo Flickr taps the power of the community to create and organize an enormous free-for-all database but has no 3D world models.

If you want to properly place your photos over Google Earth, you can use a 2D mode:


As well as a 3D mode:


Projecto interessante. :)