Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> http://www.dpreview.com/articles/olympuse300/ > > Here is a very clever mirror arrangement. I wonder how big the light loss is > from bouncing around so may times. But still- very clever. > > Feli Oly has indeed resurrected the Pen F system. There were 3 Pen F bodies with finders, the Pen F, the FT and the FV. The brightest of the bunch was the early, unmetered F which used a fine screen that was brighter than the subsequent models. The FT used one semi-silvered mirror to allow metering and it was quite dim, especially using a slow lens. The FV was the latest (and scarcest) model and it was just an unmetered FT with all slivered mirrors in the poroprism. It was brighter than the FT but suffered from the same coarse screen of the FT so, IMHO, the F was the best. Yes, the Rebel D300 uses a mirror system instead of a prism and is noticeably darker. The giveaway is the vertical axis SLR mirror. JB