People keep saying silly things like that. Optical magnification is not he same thing as viewfinder magnification. 100% viewfinder magnification means the image in the viewfinder appears life sized. To get that a sub-frame camera needs far higher optical magnification than a full-frame camera. To match an MX's 95% viewfinder magnification your ist-D needs 1.5x more optical magnification, it does not have it.
If my Oly had the same optical magnification as an MX the image would be 1/5 the size. You could hardly call that 95% viewfinder magnification. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- John Francis wrote: > Depends on the camera. The magnification of the *ist-D viewfinder > is the same as that of my MX, and it appears equally bright (just > cropped to a smaller image area, of course). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
