There was always a trend to crop the viewfinder down to something
like 94% to allow for the mount of a slide which would crop the frame
slightly. Only pro models like Nikon F's were 100% as it was assumed
that a prophotog was smart enough to allow for this and wanted
WYSIWYG finders. Even in rangefinders, some allowance was made based
on the thickness of the framelines.
It seems utterly irrelevant to do this in a DSLR or EVF camera so we
can only assume that reason has become the victim of tradition or
else that the manufacturers are convinced that the average prosumer
can't frame properly.
Agree on the D200 - quite useable finder. Shame about the CCD. :-)
AndrewF
On 10/01/2006, at 4:04 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> You can't generalize very much about digital cameras, I think. The
> viewfinder on the new D200 is quite nice, but I did not mind the D100
> which was just a bit smaller. Canon, no offense intended, seems to
> have an odd philosophy of protecting their other modelsl. The 300D
> came out crippled in its firmware so as not to compete with the 10D.
> The 5D is interesting in that it is more expensive because of the
> large sensor, but has some features missing from the cheaper 20D body
> it is using. I think the viewfinder is used as well by Canon to
> separate models.
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