I heard somewhere the 300D, like the mz50, uses a pentamirror too. That doesn't sound too good (for them, of course). Anyone had a play?
Regards, Ryan PS. Speaking of the D70, I was comparing it to the D100 and even the s2pro (!). The D70 looked like plenty of camera for the price, and almost seemed to outshine the D100. Fascinating.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 4:58 AM Subject: Re: MZ50 (or maybe 60) vs MZ5n viewfinder > On 2004-08-01, at 13:10, Ryan Lee wrote: > > > PS Anybody want to compare their ist D viewfinder (woody? tinny? > > something > > else perhaps?) to their film viewfinders? > I did it once. It is slightly smaller and slightly dimmer than the one > in MZ-S (and MZ-S has the best viewfinder among Pentax AF SLRs). > Undoubtly *istD has the biggest viewfinder among APS sized CCD DSLRs, > but it is noticably dimmer if you compare it to competition (like Nikon > D70). Nothing but physics law - smaller surface of matte screen gathers > more light... It has rather warm cast to the picture. > > -- > Best regards > Sylwek > > >

