yes, you are making sense. what i think doesn't make sense is that DSLR manufacturers quote the viewfinder mag. with 50mm lens. it's like quoting film SLR magnification with 80mm lens. sure, it's great for marketing (0.95 mag.!). but why stop there? why not quote with 500mm? 9.5x magnification!!! anyway, when i look through p645 and when i look through mx, i see a huge, bright image. when i look through *any* dslr, i see a tunnel. kinda like on my old zenit. what i really honestly do not understand, is why it so difficult to magnify the finder image 1.5x ?
best, mishka On 6/3/05, Alan Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Mishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > viewfinder quality has nothing to do with the sensor size. > > case in point: P6x7 and ME-Super. both are fantastic, > > similar mag., vastly different formats. oh, ME-S was > > also (and still is) dirt cheap > > I gave some thought about this and think you are mostly correct. 0.9X > viewfinder is > 0.9X regardless of the format. However, it might not be practically correct. > What I > mean is, 50mm for film SLR = 33mm for *istD/DS/DL practically. Since wider > angle > lens yield smaller image details through the viewfinder, smaller format is > more > difficult to manual focus in practical sense. It is like using 33mm on film > SLR and > it is more difficult to manual focus than 50mm on the same body, just that > now the > edges have been masked in D/DS/DL. I hope I am making sense. > > Alan Chan > http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
