> > 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 :-)
But,
1) RTSIII is a manual focus camera.
2) Many people still use manual focus lenses.
I am sure to manual focus users, the finders aren't just for framing (but a
tool for fine manual focus as well).
regards,
Alan Chan
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