yes but for those of us who dont need to wear glasses the high eyepoint is of no value while greater VF magnificaiton certainly would be for manual focussing and composition. It would be nice if there was a choice, via different models or interchangable viewfinders wouldnt it?
jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:23 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: manually focusing a DSLR Without getting into all the discussion of specific magnification values, etc, I find the viewfinder image size and overall brightness with comparable field of view and maximum aperture lenses in both *ist DS and K10D to be just about the same to my eye as that which I had in the Nikon F3/T with high eyepoint prism finder. This is ideal for my use since any larger than that and I cannot see the whole frame without moving my eye around due to wearing glasses. Larger size images in the viewfinder (like with the Pentax MX and Olympus OM-1n) are not as comfortable to work with if you wear glasses. The Leica M6TTL 0.72x viewfinder was similarly annoying when you had a 28mm lens fitted: to see those framelines I had to take off my glasses and smash my face much closer to the body ... so I fitted an accessory viewfinder with lower magnification and more eye relief. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
