I think it was really another one of those concerns that did not
amount to much. I did the calculation once on some viewfinder and it
was less than a millimeter around the outside. I doubt one could tell
it was less that 100% without the spec. One of those easily grabbed
onto specs that made people think it represented more than it really
did.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> There was always a trend to crop the viewfinder down to something
> like 94% to allow for the mount of a slide which would crop the frame
> slightly. Only pro models like Nikon F's were 100% as it was assumed
> that a prophotog was smart enough to allow for this and wanted
> WYSIWYG finders. Even in rangefinders, some allowance was made based
> on the thickness of the framelines.
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