On 11 Feb 2001, at 17:39, Alan Chan wrote:
> >But the RTSIII has 100% coverage and a relatively high-eyepoint finder, and
> >those things aren't unrelated to magnificaton. Generally, eye relief and/or
> >higher coverage both make it harder to achieve high magnification, and high
> >magnification makes it harder to achieve 100% coverage and/or good eye
> >relief.
>
> I understand that 100% viefinder is difficult to design and manufacture.
> However, can't they use larger eyepiece to ovecome the high magnification
> with high-eyepoint? To me anyway, high magnification is important for manual
> focus. Even though I wear glasses, I prefer high magnification than high
> eyepoint. My MX has pretty high magnification and I do not have problem to
> use it.
The point is that if the magnification goes too high with a 100% finder that is
surrounded with camera status indicators (as the RTSIII is) then you end
having to look around the finder ie you can't see everything at once, like
sitting in the front row at the movies. The advantage of a low mag finder is
that the finder image appears brighter and the data is easily but yes it is
more difficult to focus, but who cares anyhow, finders are just to frame the
subject these days :-)
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
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