[exuvia]

the problem is that almost all the modern digital cameras show a worse (smaller, darker) viewfinder vision than pretty much any old "analog" camera. I was here with a (younger) friend of mine, who was bragging about his D800's viewfinder and how it was large and bright bla bla bla. well, it muight be, in comparison with other DSLR... but I picked up my 40 years old Olympus Om-1 (which is half the D800 in size) and put it in his hands. So did I with a Pentax ME-super, possibly the tiniest reflex of its years, if not the smallest ever. It was not fun to me to see his jaws dropping, and the sad expression on his face. I don't think he spoke about the D800's viewfinder anymore ever since.

Just another world, or day and night if you want, and a shame for the modern designers.

Yes: faster lenses could help; changing focusing glass could help. But generally speaking it's very difficult to proper focus with the current OVFs, even if you are a landscape photographer, it's simple like that.

And pretty much impossible if you are in a hurry.