>I was just wondering, what's the significance of viewfinder magnification?
>I know that since I am used to my MX and ME Supers, I found it quite hard
>to manually focus on my friend's MZ-5n. So my initial thought was that the
>bigger the better. But then I noticed that the LX officially has a smaller
>magnification than the MX. In fact, all Pentax cameras have smaller
>magnification than the MX. So what's up?
AFAIK, MX has the highest magnificantion of all Pentax K mount bodies. I
have had MX, LX, Super A/Program, P50, MZ-M and Z-1p over the years. I was
amazed by how difficult to focus with the MZ-M due to the low
magnificantion, because afterall, it's a manual focus body where good
quality viewfinder is essential IMO.
>Incidentally, according to the brochures on the Pentax USA website, the
>MZ-S has a viewfinder magnification of 0.75x, where as that of the MZ-5n is
>0.8x.
That's bad. :(
>I've heard people complain that they can't see all of the viewfinder in the
>MX, and I know I have to press the camera hard into my face so that I can
>see all of it. But why can't Pentax keep the same viewfinder magnification
>on the MX and just make the rear window bigger? Am I just being too naive
>here?
I has been wondering the same too. Nikon made something called action finder
for their F bodies so my only conclusion is cost cutting.
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