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Cotty wrote:
When Jostein last visited and I got a hands-on with his *ist D, I tried a
*very* interesting experiment.
*ist D with 28-70mm on, and D60 with 28-70mm on. Set the focal lengths the same on each camera (both were f/2.8 lenses) and held each one up to both of my eyes together. That is, *ist D to one eye, D60 to the other eye, both in portrait orientation. It was easy to hold the cameras to view with same scene in a tungsten lit room at night.
What struck me was: I did *not* perceive any appreciable difference in the relative sizes of the image. The Pentax viewfinder seemed a *tad* bigger, but just on the edges of perception. Not like it was really obvious. Bare in mind that the *ist D CCD and the D60 CMOS are not identical in size, so the dreaded 'effective focal length multiplier' (what ever that is) is 1.5 on the *ist D and 1.6 on the D60.
I was anticipating a much brighter view in the Pentax over the Canon, but I did not see that.
I would love to try this with other DSLRs...
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