On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the most interesting things (to me) in the K-5 descriptions I've > seen is the suggestion that the viewfinder has a transparent LCD that > displays the framing lines and focus points. If that's true, it's a body > thing, but it implies that (probably in the next one) they'll be able to > do a lot more directly *on* the view in the viewfinder. > > On the down side, it might make it very challenging to put a third-party > split-prism focus screen in there. > > -- Graydon >
It actually doesn't imply that much. Nikon's been using the LCD overlay tech for 12 years now, it was first introduced on the F80/N80 film body back in 1998 and all the non-Pro Nikon's have it in some form today and some of the pro-level bodies have a variant (the crop-darking feature introduced on the D2Xs where the area outside the crop is darkened when using 5:4, DX or HS crop modes). Really all it provides is on-demand gridlines, easy AF point illumination and error icons (the low-end Nikon's use it pretty much only for AF points, no card warnings and low battery warnings). -Adam -- 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.
