With considerably less need, since it seems to be designed to not use
many older, including manual focus, Nikon lenses.
Adam Maas wrote:
> 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
>
>
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