Saturday, July 10, 2010, 8:34:48 AM, you wrote: BW> [...] >> 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.
BW> That's just bad luck for glasses wearers, not wistful thinking. I would take BW> the MX viewfinder over the E-1 finder any day (other things being equal). BW> One reason for wanting a 35mm-sized sensor is to be able to get decent BW> viewfinders again. Well, I can really relate to Godfrey on this one. Up until now, I have managed with mostly contacts my entire life. There was a short stint where I was wearing glasses and I really didn't like shooting a camera, because of the lack of eye relief. At age 50, and with astigmatism, it looks like I will be heading back to glasses shortly to allow me to see near and far well. I have been doing the trick of monovision where one eye is corrected for near and one for far, but finding that to not work as well anymore - have done it for several years. So when I put on glasses and look through my K-x vs my K20D, the K-x is a bit easier to see everything than the K20D. -- Bruce -- 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.
