Sports-Viewfinder SD10-How much is shown?

SD10 has a sports-viewfinder showing more than the 1.7x crop. How much does it show. I had the opportunity to have a look through many years ago.

One of the new digital cams or one which will come has a similar field. How is it called?

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If memory don't fails me, I think the SD9/10 was built on the Sigma SA-7, a film camera, and thus I think it was FF.

3dreal said:

SD10 has a sports-viewfinder showing more than the 1.7x crop. How much does it show. I had the opportunity to have a look through many years ago.

One of the new digital cams or one which will come has a similar field. How is it called?

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I had read that too, about it being FF. That would make the "Sports Finder" quite a clever Marketing gimmick!

I took a couple of SD9 shots just now and framed up a booklet to just fill the clear area - first horizontally then vertically (because the book aspect ratio was not 3:2).

In the SPP review window, the booklet was about 96% of the frame in each direction. What that means in terms of the ever-vague "viewfinder coverage" number I have no idea, but I deduce that, if its within the clear bit, it will appear in the image.

A one-shot hand-held test, wasn't too easy to get it right.

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yvind Strm said:

yvind Strm wrote: Hello If memory don't fails me, I think the SD9/10 was built on the Sigma SA-7, a film camera, and thus I think it was FF.

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The original SD9 and subsequent SD10 were based on the film full-frame 35mm Sigma camera, with SA lens mount. That's why the originals (those two models) had FF camera lenses to start with - and I still use bother the 15-30EX and the 24-70EX film lenses - excellent quality too, if a bit inclined to build up ones muscles!

The viewfinder was same and also screen as for the FF film camera - so Sigma simply part-masked off to leave the bright area that represented the actual sensor area surrounded by a slightly greyed surround - very useful for seeing what was outside the frame for the actual picture to be captured on the sensor - calling it the Sports Finder - they later, in the SD14, revised the VF and made the whole screen to show the full sensor size, so the (useful actually, as was a bit like using the Leica M3 bright frame finder) sports finder idea was superceded.

xpatUSA said:

. . . What that means in terms of the ever-vague "viewfinder coverage" number I have no idea, but I deduce that, if its within the clear bit, it will appear in the image.

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For what it's worth, DPRs SD9 review says:

"Viewfinder frame coverage: 98% horizontal, 97% vertical"

That film camera looks quite familiar:





I see they lost the hyphen for the SD9 . . .

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xpatUSA said:

xpatUSA said:

. . . What that means in terms of the ever-vague "viewfinder coverage" number I have no idea, but I deduce that, if its within the clear bit, it will appear in the image.

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For what it's worth, DPRs SD9 review says:

"Viewfinder frame coverage: 98% horizontal, 97% vertical"

That film camera looks quite familiar:

I see they lost the hyphen for the SD9 . . .

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"For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite"
Ted
SD9, GH1 and a lens or two

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In SD10-prospectus: The same values: 97% vertical- 98% horizontal

That means digital image: 100% right?

0.77x (50/1.4-infinity)

IN SD-14: the same 97/98 but digital image cropped

0.9(50/1.4 infinity)



0.9/0.77=1.16883

That means SD14-viewfinder enlarged by 1.16883

How is SD1?



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