Re: AW: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-05 Thread Sylwek
on 04.01.04 18:03, graywolf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: High magnification finders have a low-viewpoint (your eye has to be very close to it). Nikon started all this lower magnification stuff with the HP (high-viewpoint) finder for the F3, and suddenly eyeglass wearers could see the whole

Re: AW: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-05 Thread Alin Flaider
keller.schaefer wrote: ks I still wonder, why they don't make those finders a bit larger. Would this ks really require a very large prism - or do the manufacturers just find it ks unimportant? I suspect larger viewfinders are perfectly possible within the current prism dimensions (the prism

Re: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-04 Thread Heiko Hamann
Hi Sven, on 04 Jan 04 you wrote in pentax.list: I still wonder, why they don't make those finders a bit larger. Would this really require a very large prism - or do the manufacturers just find it unimportant? How wonderfull if the *ist D had a ME-Super-sized finder image... Yes, but the ME

AW: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-04 Thread keller.schaefer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Januar 2004 11:23 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: *ist D finder magnification Hi Sven, on 04 Jan 04 you wrote in pentax.list: I still wonder, why they don't make those finders a bit larger. Would this really require a very large prism - or do

Re: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-04 Thread Heiko Hamann
Hi Sven, on 04 Jan 04 you wrote in pentax.list: I don't know about the Canons but neither a Nikon F100 nor F5 would be an alternative - they both have a .7 finder magnification. I didn't care of the magnfication but of the viewfinder size: the viewfinders of the F100 and F5 are quite big and

Re: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: keller.schaefer Subject: AW: *ist D finder magnification Nice work - and makes the *ist D look a little better when compared to its competitors rather than to film cameras (and this looks like a major disadvantage of the Olympus E1 system, too). I still

*ist D finder magnification

2004-01-03 Thread keller.schaefer
, as for the 67 they state 0,75 for a 105mm lens - and they should have done so for the *ist D as well. Based on a 35mm lens, the *ist D finder magnification figure would look like 0,62 - and would illustrate how small the finder image really is. Sven

Re: *ist D finder magnification

2004-01-03 Thread Rüdiger Neumann
length that relates to the sensor size. This way, a direct comparison of finder image size could be done. Pentax themselves vary the focal length, as for the 67 they state 0,75 for a 105mm lens - and they should have done so for the *ist D as well. Based on a 35mm lens, the *ist D finder magnification