06-05-2010, 01:00 PM
[quote name='jitteringjr' date='05 June 2010 - 09:00 AM' timestamp='1275717612' post='234']
[...] keep in mind with the 50D and 550D you have tunnel vision even if you can see everything in the view finder with out moving your eye because it isn't a 100% viewfinder in them. You are only seeing the center crop tunnel. At least with the 7D you can move your eye and see the real frame the camera will capture. [/quote]
Actually this isn´t quite the case, and the 100% viewfinder has nothing to do with that.
Nikon D300: 100% viewfinder, easy to avoid the „tunel†as long as you keep the eye close enough.
Canon 1D/1Ds Mark-whatever: 100% viewfinder, no tunnel vision whatsoever. The frame sides are perfectly viewable with no wiggling around, and on 1D (non-s) most people can see the whole picture at a glance. That's critical in sports, when cropping means another step in the workflow (or summary rejection from an editor in a hurry, just because you had a brightly coloured object in a distant corner unrelated to the subject).
Olympus E-3: the viewfinder is just as big as any good APS-C or DX camera, it has 100% percent viewfinder, and easily observable frame all around.
The examples can go on and on; I love the 7D for almost any aspect of it, I could learn to live with the crowded megapixels, but I still worry about the viewfinder. It's very nice in the specs, but I'm trying to find out just why does it seem so tunneled; it's almost like the eye relief is (much) less than the official specification. And no, it has nothing to do with glasses or your eyes.
[...] keep in mind with the 50D and 550D you have tunnel vision even if you can see everything in the view finder with out moving your eye because it isn't a 100% viewfinder in them. You are only seeing the center crop tunnel. At least with the 7D you can move your eye and see the real frame the camera will capture. [/quote]
Actually this isn´t quite the case, and the 100% viewfinder has nothing to do with that.
Nikon D300: 100% viewfinder, easy to avoid the „tunel†as long as you keep the eye close enough.
Canon 1D/1Ds Mark-whatever: 100% viewfinder, no tunnel vision whatsoever. The frame sides are perfectly viewable with no wiggling around, and on 1D (non-s) most people can see the whole picture at a glance. That's critical in sports, when cropping means another step in the workflow (or summary rejection from an editor in a hurry, just because you had a brightly coloured object in a distant corner unrelated to the subject).
Olympus E-3: the viewfinder is just as big as any good APS-C or DX camera, it has 100% percent viewfinder, and easily observable frame all around.
The examples can go on and on; I love the 7D for almost any aspect of it, I could learn to live with the crowded megapixels, but I still worry about the viewfinder. It's very nice in the specs, but I'm trying to find out just why does it seem so tunneled; it's almost like the eye relief is (much) less than the official specification. And no, it has nothing to do with glasses or your eyes.