Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, I think the type of digital SLR you have in mind is the so called ZLR, like the Nikon Coolpix 5700 and similar cameras by Minolta and Olympus. I have the 5700 and that's one of its few features I like. But the mainstream DSLR market, both 35mm and MF, seems to offer only conventional mirror technology (they are standard 35mm SLRs converted to digital, like the D10=Elan 7, or more or less old MF cameras with a new digital back, so it makes sense to imagine one with this pellicle mirror I've learned about thanks to this thread. The problem is, of course, that the pellicle mirror technology seems to have been used only by Canon and with little commercial success. achilles - --- LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: > <<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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html