I was out in my yard today looking around with my D70 and kit lens and had the following experience: I was comparing what I saw with my naked eye versus what I saw in the viewfinder and I discovered that at 70mm what I saw in the vf was at the same scale as what I saw without the camera. The image of the object and the object looked the same size! What up with this, is my question. With a telephoto setting, I expected the image to look closer than the object. The "normal" lens is supposed to give the same fov as the naked eye which I assumed meant the normal lens and the eye give the same magnification. Also the D70 has a 0.75 magnification which suggests the vf image is pushed out so to speak. So is there a demagnification of the vf which offsets the focal length magnification? I didn't compare the vf image to the recorded image yet (obviously I should do this). Has anyone noticed a similar effect? For me this question relates to figuring out what focal lengths i like.
Somewhat related: in the specs, eyepoint 18mm (-1.0 inverse meters). Does anyone know what this means?
DAllshouse wrote:
I was out in my yard today looking around with my D70 and kit lens and had the following experience: I was comparing what I saw with my naked eye versus what I saw in the viewfinder and I discovered that at 70mm what I saw in the vf was at the same scale as what I saw without the camera. The image of the object and the object looked the same size! What up with this, is my question. With a telephoto setting, I expected the image to look closer than the object. The "normal" lens is supposed to give the same fov as the naked eye which I assumed meant the normal lens and the eye give the same magnification. Also the D70 has a 0.75 magnification which suggests the vf image is pushed out so to speak. So is there a demagnification of the vf which offsets the focal length magnification? I didn't compare the vf image to the recorded image yet (obviously I should do this). Has anyone noticed a similar effect? For me this question relates to figuring out what focal lengths i like.
Somewhat related: in the specs, eyepoint 18mm (-1.0 inverse meters). Does anyone know what this means?
The viewfinder of the D70 is rated at 0.75x magnification with a 50mm lens. Which means that with this lens the object that you see through the finder should appear 0.75x what you see normally. This is not great, as the 50 mm lens provides a 75 mm equivalent angle of view on a DX sensor camera.
