On Nov 10, 2006, at 1:57 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:40:51PM +0000, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: >> What these in particular do have is a 1.5x magnification, . . . > > They don't, you know. Any given lens fitted on my *ist-D > produces exactly the same image magnification (and brightness) > in the viewfinder as does a similar lens fitted to an MX, but > the image area will be cropped to the central two thirds. > > I've actually performed this comparison, as has Godfrey.
Yes, I agree. There's a difference between a different format providing a different field of view, and viewfinder magnification. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
