brandofamily wrote:
Jacko I ask YOU about this since you always have a good way to teach me....I don't get it when you D2X folks talk about the VF being smaller and darker on the D70 compared to the D2X. I have never used another DSLR or any SLR for that matter. So I'm not trying to be thick. Is there a way you, or anyone, could illustrate for me using an image, possibly, the difference between the VF's? I'm really not getting what was said about the D70's being 95% of the D2Xs.
It's what you're seeing when you look through the viewfinder. When a VF is said to be 95% or whatever percent, you can actually only see that much of the image area. So, when a VF is said to be 100%, it's actually allowing you to view 100% of the image that the lens is seeing, IOW, what you're seeing is what you'll actually get. If you want to demonstrate this to yourself, take a picture of something, using a tripod, and align some object set against the very edge of the frame. When you process the picture, you'll see that there is actually some space between the object and the frame of the image, not what you saw in the viewfinder.
I hope that made sense, my brain is kind of numb. I might have to re-read it tomorrow
So if I want a tight crop out of the camera I need to compose the image by cutting off the edges of the image, then I'll get it all, but cropped very tightly?
Maybe this is why my shots are never cropped tight enough for the guy I'm working with. I hate saying my mentor, it seems to strange to put it that way.
Great question as I've been wondering this myself. Compared to my F80, FG, etc. the D70 has comparatively a peep hole of a viewfinder. You do get somewhat used to it but when I pick up the F80 again the view through the finder seems huge. I'm considering a D2X as well and I was hopping it had a viewfinder as large as or larger than my film bodies. It makes manual focusing so much easier and viewfinder attachments is something I want to avoid. I don't know why Nikon made the D70 with such a small finder. The F80 (and other bodies) have built in speedlights as well and they have much larger views through the eye piece so it's not because of the flash.
brandofamily wrote:
So if I want a tight crop out of the camera I need to compose the image by cutting off the edges of the image, then I'll get it all, but cropped very tightly?
Maybe this is why my shots are never cropped tight enough for the guy I'm working with. I hate saying my mentor, it seems to strange to put it that way.
I would never cut off the edges of the image, because you don't know that you're going to get it all. However, I would crop in camera just as close as I could get it to the edge, assuming that it worked with the composition. You probably aren't cropping close enough anyway, plus the 5% or so you can't see, it all adds up
