On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > That sounds like a great idea, but I doubt it would ever happen. The idea > of a viewing area greater than the framing area seems so Leica-like. I can > see why you'd like it. I would as well.
As would I. I'm not sure I'd agree with you that it will never happen. While I wouldn't expect to see it on a body the size of the DS/DL/K100, the extra size and weight of the viewfinder prism would be less of an issue with a larger, heavier body (such as, say, the putative K1D). The one big drawback - obvious vignetting in the viewfinder with many of the DA lenses - is somewhat ameliorated by the fact that the image circle has to be a little larger than needed for the 16x24 frame for SR purposes (although I don't really understand why the SR system has to add that much more; to correct for 10 pixels worth of camera shake is less than 0.1 mm of sensor travel. Yet I've seen suggestions that the total travel possible is closer to +/- 5mm. That's something like 750 pixels on a 10MP sensor - does anybody really expect the camera to compensate for that amount of shake?) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
