Photography is a wonderful hobby and profession. It should come as no surprise, but I love it! It’s also an absolute privilege to write about cameras for a living. But the part of my job that I hate most is how sedentary it is and that’s largely due to the high levels of screen time. I reckon I spend a minimum of six hours every single working day, looking at my computer screen. That’s not even counting time spent on my phone, watching TV, playing video games, and capturing photographs with my mirrorless camera.
A recent IPA survey put the average British adult’s daily screen time at nearly 7.5 hours. I nearly hit that at work! Let alone all the other screens that are vying for my attention. Now, in the grand scheme of things, my mirrorless camera’s EVF is a drop in the ocean. But my unhealthy obsession with screens might go some way to explaining why I lament the death of the optical viewfinder.
