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.
When I began testing the framing on my 5x4 I placed a piece of frosted film in my darkslides and then ran a pencil around the edges of the frame. I then placed the pieces of film on the ground glass to see if they matched: they did.
So too do my Nikons...
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!)
Agreed, but if you remove the pentaprism on a Nikon you see the image on the ground glass (plastic?) screen. This gives a100% view from almost any position
I have just checked the viewfinder on my Nikon F100 (difficult)
The F100 was not designed to give a100% view. (Mine drives me mad because of this!)
and my 14n. Both cameras do not display 100% of the image in the viewfinder.
Never tried a 14n: I take your word for it!
The 14n does, in my simple test, match 100% what I get on the LCD to what I get on the file
Fair enough
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,
Agreed
if you look through the viewfinder it won't be.
My question referred to the comparison of the different framing on samples of the same model of digital camera.
Cheers,
Clive
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