Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Larry, Any SLR (digital or film) uses a mirror in the viewing system to implement a WYSIWYG (what you see is what ou get) design, thus avoiding viewing problems in other systems such as paralax with rangefinders. So in fact the image you see thru the viewfinder is more or less the same as will be recorded on the sensor or film. On a digital SLR, the viewing mirror blocks the light path to the sensor, so that you cannot see the image until after you capture it. Digital P&S, not using the SLR viewing system do not have this problem, so that you could use the reproduced sensor image on the camera back to compose. The proposed use of a fixed pellicle mirror in SLRs solves that problem among others (e.g., shorter lag time). - - Phong > LRZeitlin@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:05 AM > > <<As I think more about it, it seems to me the pellicle mirror would make > > great sense for a digital SLR. >> > > I may be missing the point. Why would a digital SLR need a mirror at all? > Don't you want to see the image that is recorded on the sensor > rather than the > aerial image ptoduced by the lens? What a digital SLR really > needs is a very > fine grained digital viewfinder with an eyepiece which magnifies > the image to > "life" size. > > Larry Z - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html