On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:50:04AM +0100, Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi Godfrey > as a strictly film user I was simply shocked when I first looked trough a > digital Pentax. > It looks like a dark tunnel compared to any and even the cheapest film > camera I ever owned,
Then you presumably haven't used any of the later Pentax AF cameras (such as a PZ or MZ body). The *ist-D (and the DS, though not the DL) have almost as large a viewfinder image as many of those cameras. The later low-end MZs, and the *ist film body, are particularly bad. This is one area where the older and cheaper the camera you use, the larger the viewfinder image will be. As more and more information got added to the in-viewfinder display, the amount of space available for the actual image had to shrink.
