Hi
It refers to the EVFs of G1, GF1 and EP2. There is nothing to complain about the G1's EVF, but the EP2's is a tad better.
that's interesting that you say a tad better, as a quick hunt up will reveal that Olympus VF-2 has 1.15x magnification while the G1 has 1.4x magnification.
Firstly, this makes the G1 view bigger to your eye than the VF-2. However there is a reason for the lower magnification, that is that it is actually a lower resolution. So if it was viewed at the same apparent size then pixels would be more apparent than they are.
I see pixels in the VF-2 when I look into it.
The chip that the Panasonic uses for its EVF alternates each pixel, to quote from a well known reference "
uses a field sequential system that mixes red, green and blue images shown sequentially at 60fps, giving an effective viewfinder resolution of 1.4 million dots at 180 fps."
The Olympus as I have read does not do this and uses the more common pixel divided into 3 bars that other screens use. So Technically it has the same number of pixels (1.44Mp), but that's the total count of R, G, and B pixels
I guess that its like wine, everyone has different tastes. I'm certainly not going to suggest that you don't prefer one over the other, but there just isn't any technical reason to suggest that the E-P2's VF-2 could be superior to the G1's.
Having said that I do know another person who has a GH1 and a E-P2 who says he prefers the EP-2's finder ... so its not only down to spec
I like my wine in red, preferably dry ...
PS:
from
Seiko Epson Corporation (“Epson”, TSE:6724) today announced that it has begun volume production of a new high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT color panel for electronic viewfinders. Measuring just 0.47 of an inch (1.2 cm) diagonally, the new panels offer SVGA (800 x RGB x 600) resolution in red, green and blue for a total of 1.44 megapixels.
800x600 display is 480,000 actual colour dots, if you multiply that by 3 you get 1.44 "pixels"