I don't know what cameras you use but my Arca Swiss 5x4 and 10x8 always frame exactly what I see on my ground glass, and so does my roll film back when attached. I checked this years ago when I was carrying out some very precise work .
I don't have an Arca Swiss but when I shoot on a 5x4 the frame is made on film by the darkslide, not the camera.
So too do my Nikons, from my old Fs, F2s, F3 and, I understand -even though I do not have one- the F5.
I'm not trying to pull apart film cameras here but I always understood there was a built in tolerance. And when any individual looks through a viewfinder, they don't always see the same as the next person. This comes down to where the user has there eyeball in relation to the camera (my mother in law sees a whole different world!)
I have just checked the viewfinder on my Nikon F100 (difficult) and my 14n. Both cameras do not display 100% of the image in the viewfinder. The 14n does, in my simple test, match 100% what I get on the LCD to what I get on the file
How, also, can you claim that Janus's new digtial cameras are perfect if samples of the same model do not even match each other in framing?
I thought I had been clear. If you shoot tethered, WYSIWYG, if you look through the viewfinder it won't be. Please check this yourself as I am starting to have serious doubts about my own eyeballs
Cheers
George Brooks
http://www.georgebrooks.net
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