Re: [OM] OM Finder coverage

[allan]

The yearning for 100overage is based on the desire to control the frame,
and not to have the frame control you. When I look into a camera's finder, I
don't want to do math, I want the finder to tell me exactly what will be in
the frame.

Allan



> From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:39:32 -0800
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] OM Finder coverage
> 
> I have never quite understood the obsession with 100overage on the
> viewfinder.  If you do the arithmetic and calculate the areas, a 1mm
> reduction in each dimension results in 930f the full frame. That is
> 0.5mm at the top, bottom and each side.  The Oly OM single digits
> give you 97%.  Slide frames. scanning film holders and enlarger masks
> usually cover the edges of the frame anyway. If you have significant
> detail in your picture in the outer fraction of a millimeter of the
> frame, maybe you should step back or zoom out?


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