mgoldfield

I could not help but notice you boast of owning fourteen (yes 14) cameras!

Do you take photographs? Or are you a camera collector?

I also took a look at all the topics you presented; not one of them is about
"taking photographs."

Please enlighten me!

hj Loc: Florida

I have a Canon 70D DSLR and had to look at it to determine if it had the vari-angle screen. It does but I guess that tells you how often I use that feature :-) . I do like the touch screen feature though.

ToBoldlyGo Loc: London U.K.

For me, flip. I use it more than I was expecting I would. I rarely use the screen for its touch functions though. I just prefer having buttons for most functions. It's nice to have the option of touch though.

Feiertag Loc: British Columbia, Canada

Please enlighten as to why you care if he takes photographs or collects cameras. It has nothing to do with the subject matter.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Personally, neither for me. I like having my screen immovable. I've seen too many broken flip out screens and touch screens that the shooter "accidently" pressed and missed a shot. For me (and this is a personal choice as both can be convenient) I prefer to have an immovable screen that doesn't get left hanging out or whatever. If the sun is too bright or whatever, I can always shade it.

insman1132 Loc: Southwest Florida

Being an old duck I often am finding it hard to adjust to new innovations. I turned off my touchscreen on my camera(s) because I found myself accidentally touching and therefore changing something when I didn't want the change too often.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

I've use a camera that had both: never used the touch-screen feature.
The articulating screen was a huge bonus to me: Set the camera on the floor/ground and still be able to compose my subject. Or sit with the camera on my lap, pointing sideways from my position, but myself facing away from the subject (read: grandkids). Great to take candid shots and the kids not even realizing that because I was looking somewhere else and still had their picture taken. At the time they hated it, now they're happy with those photos.

Bobcat87

Ditto for me. I like the articulated screen. However, I have too often accidentally touched the screen, so I turned that feature off.

wendycoonin

Hands down, an articulating screen. it allows you to see some shots that would be impossible with the standard view. As for a touch screen, although I like to be able to touch the spot I want in focus...I've wasted many shots because it is too sensitive..

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Get a Life, Haydon!!!!

This is the dozenth time you've done this, now, on my posts ... do you have any idea how aggravating it is?

Put ME on YOUR Ignore List ... and bloody well - leave me alone!!!

YOU ARE POISONING ALL MY POSTS!!!!!

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Of course I do, M ... and some of them are posted here, in the gallery ....

You are counting a Sony bridge (ten more of those, but I didn't have room to list them all) and my Pentax 67 - a film camera - medium format.

I only have a dozen DSLRs - started out wanting to get three of each major brand - a beginner, an intermediate, and a semi-pro ...

I did it, right, at the beginning - with Canon, and ended up doing it right, with the three Sony SLTs ... but, in the middle, it kinda fell apart ...

The second Pentax I bought, I had to return (bought it used) and whilst I was waiting for the credit to be processed, the D5500 came out, so I got one.

But after the credit had been issued, I looked at the price of a NEW K-3 ... and it was astronomical, so I wound up getting a D7100, instead ...

Wound up with a dozen (as planned) but - two LESS Pentax models, and two MORE Nikon models - one for the Touch, the other - for full lens compatibility.

Don't think I'll be buying anymore DSLRs for a while ... covered all my needs already - but, you never know, M ....

BTW, M ... on your comment about actually TAKING photographs, in my series of Topics ... I suspect you missed a few ....

That list goes back a year - half of which was spent, putting up two a day ... and the list goes on for 13 pages, at what - 20-25 per page?

I've dealt with that subject once or twice ... perhaps more ... look at the ones with "Art" in the title ... you might enjoy some of those, M ....

billnourse Loc: Bloomfield, NM

My choice is definitely flip. I have a touch on my 5D Mk 4 and never use it. I don't like fingerprints all over the screen.

Because of some of the shooting I do, very low angle, night skies, and other odd angles, I had to get an angle viewfinder for mine. If I had a flip screen it would aid in composition.

Bill

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Although my Olympus mirrorless cameras have flip out screens and touch screen I find the flip out screen more useful to me.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

The EOS 70D was the first in the intermediate Semi-Pro Canon line to employ Touch. The prior 60D I have, has the flip-out screen but lacks Touch capability ...

In the Rebel line ... all "i" series models, since the T4i (I also have) have been both Touch and Flip-Out screens, and now the SL2 does, too ... and the 6D Mk. II.

The newer 5D models employ Touch, too ... but with a Fixed Screen, HJ ....

Canon has more Flip-Out Touch Screen models than anyone else ... it's become pretty much standard on the Rebel "i" series, and the EOS XX series ...

Personally, I love having both ... but I really wish Canon would adopt the larger 3.2" screen Nikon uses ... that'd make my day!!!!!

Nikon1201

I prefer either , just something to. Break or go wrong