You don't know what you are talking about. The MX has an over sized
mirror, the ZX/MZ mirrors were just big enough, in the *ist-D they
become over sized mirrors. (I have the advantage of owning an MX LX,
(which has an even bigger mirror than the MX), MZ3, and *ist-D, while I
haven't actually measured them, I can tell by eye that the mirror in the
*ist-D and MZ3 are within micrometers of the same size. The shutter is
much smaller on the *ist-D.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Sorry, PJ. I don't have a ZX-5n but I have an MX as well as the DS.
There is no way that the mirror or shutter in a 35mm film SLR will be
the same size as the mirror in a DSLR with a 16x24mm format.
Here's a picture:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/MX-DS-mirror-comparison.jpg
The mirror box could not be the same size either, since the necessary
points of attachment for the mirror mechanism as well as clearance
for its would be necessarily different too.
Godfrey
On Sep 21, 2005, at 11:20 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Which means that the lever should just drop in. I hadn't though
about it before but even the mirror looks the same. Only things
that really look different are the size of the shutter, the focusing
screen and the lack of power zoom connections.
It may be the same part, just trimmed in the ZX-5n, but I'd suspect
the similarities simply come from the design side "take this
design, make it flush to the mount". No reason to waste cycles
redesigning the part which doesn't need it.
The mirror box is molded plastic. Compare it to the mirror box in
a the zx5n it even has the same channels.
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