Interchangable finders were nice, but nobody has been buying them in years. Nikon only kept them as long as they did for traditions sake.
-Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > yes but for those of us who dont need > to wear glasses the high eyepoint is > of no value while greater VF magnificaiton > certainly would be for manual focussing and > composition. It would be nice if there was > a choice, via different models or interchangable > viewfinders wouldnt it? > > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:23 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: manually focusing a DSLR > > > Without getting into all the discussion of specific magnification > values, etc, I find the viewfinder image size and overall brightness > with comparable field of view and maximum aperture lenses in both > *ist DS and K10D to be just about the same to my eye as that which I > had in the Nikon F3/T with high eyepoint prism finder. > > This is ideal for my use since any larger than that and I cannot see > the whole frame without moving my eye around due to wearing glasses. > Larger size images in the viewfinder (like with the Pentax MX and > Olympus OM-1n) are not as comfortable to work with if you wear glasses. > > The Leica M6TTL 0.72x viewfinder was similarly annoying when you had > a 28mm lens fitted: to see those framelines I had to take off my > glasses and smash my face much closer to the body ... so I fitted an > accessory viewfinder with lower magnification and more eye relief. > > Godfrey > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
