John Francis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:57:17PM -0500, graywolf wrote: >> Well, I do not have a DSLR, so you may be correct, but every one I >> looked through had this small image with lots of black space around it, >> so I naturally thought that they simply cropped the viewfinder to the >> reduced image size. But if as you imply they actually have a full sized >> image in the VF then I stand corrected. > > You obviously haven't looked through the viewfinder of many modern > auto-focus SLRs. While the image area you see through the viewfinder > of a *ist D, K10D, etc. is smaller than what you will see with an LX, > MX, etc. those are about the last cameras to devote that much of the > area solely to image. Even my MZ-S, probably the best of the late- > model Pentax film SLRs, only has a slightly larger image area than > that of my *ist D. > > A word of advice - stay well away from entry-level CaNikon DSLRs. > >
Nikon's improving. The D40 has a viewfinder closer to the K100D in quality than the D50. Not quie as good yet though. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
