Re: Pellicle Mirrors

[Gonz]

I wonder if its possible to utilize the technology behind LCD's to 
create electronically controlled "silvering" on the mirror, so that at 
the appropriate time, the mirror becomes transparent, and for all other 
times, it is normally silvered so that the viewfinder gets all the light.

Steve Jolly wrote:
Cotty wrote:
Actually, with these pellicle mirrors, the light splitting favours the
sensor rather than the finder. Why not turn that around and favour the
finder? Then the 'dark' light gets to go to the sensor. Okay, they'd need
to make better sensors. Too expensive and complicated. There must be a
best of both worlds somewhere. Steve Jolly, get cracking!

Given how good digital SLRs are at high ISO speeds already, you could do 
this with current technology, I reckon.  You'd lose most or all of the 
low-noise advantage of digital imaging over film though.

S