Re: "normal" focal length of *ist-D?

[graywolf]

The viewfinder shows a smaller image than does a 35mm. It has more 
magnification than most of the competition though so it looks bigger 
than the equalent Nikon or Canon viewfinders which tend to look like 
they just had the standard finder masked down to cover the small sensor 
area (sort as if they covered the unused portion of the sceen with black 
tape). The image in the *istD looks to be about 1.5x as larger as it 
does in the 10D or D100 which have viewfinder magnifications in the 0.7x 
range.

In other words the 0.95x magnification makes the screen look about the 
same size as it does in a 35mm camera with a 0.7x magnification such as 
the ZX series cameras. To my way of thinking that is the major feature 
of the *istD over the competition.



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


That is not the issue now. What do I see through the viewfinder? If I am 
using a 200m lens and the "crop" will make it look like 350mm -- am I seeing 200mm 
through the viewfinder or 350mm? And if I am seeing 200mm, then as someone 
mentioned previously, are there crop lines?


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