----- 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 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? I think that some of finder size is based on screen size, which relates to sensor (or film) size. APS sized digital cameras are starting at a disadvantage because the sensor is quite a bit smaller than the 35mm film cameras that people want to compare them to. What surprised me about the ist D was that it appears that the finder is just a cropped 35mm finder, which is why the magnification is close to 1x with a 50mm lens. William Robb
