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Originally Posted by glatt
This reason is not valid in my experience. Every viewfinder camera I have ever used has the focus of the viewfinder located at or near infinity so your eye can focus on it with ease. A few have a little dial that lets you even adjust where that focus is to fit your eye. Presumably so you can adjust the viewfinder to accommodate the wearing of reading glasses.
It is a valid reason for a non-viewfinder camera being held at arm's length instead of closer to your face. But that's a strike against the non-viewfinder camera.
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In my experience, where the optical and lcd viewfinder both show the same thing, the lcd shows it bigger, but it is also important that the lcd shows it with more light in some conditions. That extra light helps.
I purchased both of the last two digital cameras (Canon A710IS and Canon G10) with the specific requirement that the have an optical viewfinder. Having taken thousands of pictures with them, I find a vanishingly (hahaha) small percentage of them were framed using the optical viewfinder.