[...] > Not to be overly contentious, but the Pentax MX viewfinder had for me > the same issues I had with the Olympus OM1 and Nikon FM series > viewfinders: too much magnification, not enough eye point distance for > me wearing my glasses. I had to work to see the whole frame and find > the metering information and camera settings. The high-eye point > viewfinder on my Nikon F3/T, Olympus E-1, Panasonic G1 is FAR superior > ... I can see the whole image at a glance, as well as all the > in-viewfinder exposure settings and metering indicators, with no > strain. And the G1 finder is perfectly visible in light levels that > leave the MX with a 50mm f/1.4 lens like looking into a black hole. > > I hear this kind of praise of old 35mm SLR viewfinders all the time. I > think it's mostly just wistful fondness for things past.
That's just bad luck for glasses wearers, not wistful thinking. I would take the MX viewfinder over the E-1 finder any day (other things being equal). One reason for wanting a 35mm-sized sensor is to be able to get decent viewfinders again. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
