More need actually, since it won't AF with most Nikon AF lenses that are otherwise completely usable on it (The only restriction on AF lenses is the AF).
-Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > 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 >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
