on 1/18/01 8:24 AM, pentax-discuss-digest at
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> Could you, or anyone, remind us what the problem is in
> designing a viewfinder with a 100% view?
Shel,
To keep the prisms smaller and less expensive and to hide slop. If the prism
shows 100% of the film gate it takes a lot of precision in design and
manufacture--the tolerances are quite small. If the prism only shows most of
the frame, well, a millimeter here, a millimeter there, it doesn't make any
difference.
Then there's size. Minolta, when they introduced the Maxxum 9, had an
illustration of the size of a 100% finder vs. a standard lower-coverage one.
The difference in size is fairly considerable.
I like to be able to see what's going to be on the negative, since I print
full-frame.
--Mike
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