On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, William Robb wrote: > Agreed about that. Unfortunately, this seems to be the way of the world. Of > all the APS sensor sized DSLR's I have seen, the ist D seems to have the > best one, but for sure, the LX is better.
It is the downside of having a smaller sensor. Light is being collected and shown on the viewfinder from a smaller physical area. If the *ist D viewfinder was as large as the LX viewfinder it would be much dimmer. I personally find that the *ist D viewfinder works better for me as a glasses wearer than most 35mm SLR viewfinders. I know about diopter correction, but I don't like to remove my glasses when taking photographs. > I would like to put a split image screen into my ist D, it looks like the > screen may be removable, to improve manual focusing. > I don't have many AF lenses, so this is important to me. I think that this would make the center AF point and the spot metering useless. That might be a reasonable tradeoff though. I wonder if a focus aid could be placed around the center spot which would help with using MF lenses and not disrupt the center AF and spot metering. alex
