Or maybe a full frame viewfinder with the system which Pentax used with their "Panoramic" mode... So you can cycle between full frame/actual framing. Of course actual framing will be less enlarged but... well, dream!
2005/10/2, Juan Buhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/2/05, Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you think about it, there's no way that a smaller screen could > > possibly look as big and bright in a viewfinder. Less total light > > hitting the surface area of the screen = less light to your eyes. No > > way around that without some sort of magical way of intensifying the > > light that is already hitting the screen. > > I know--just shutting off my engineering background in order to > daydream a bit :) > > A nice (very nice) tradeoff would be to have a full frame viewfinder, > even if the picture is not full frame. It could have framelines like a > rangefinder, and would let you see around the picture you're about to > take... > > BTW, this is in my mind one of the strongest reasons to want a full > frame DSLR. Of course, the viewfinder in, say, a ZX5n doesn't look > nearly as good as the one in the MX... > > j > > -- > Juan Buhler > http://www.jbuhler.com > photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com > > -- ---------------------- Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SFXn,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ...

