carstenw
Active member
One part of the camera which has me wondering... the viewfinder. The body as viewed from above shows a long thin tunnel from the opening to the prism proper, and looking at the specs, I see that the viewfinder has 98% coverage, but 0.62x magnification with the standard lens, the 55mm. The Leica S2, for comparison, has 96% coverage, but 0.86x magnification.
Leica has chosen the 70mm lens as their normal lens, but this works out to a slightly long lens, 56mm in 135 terms, whereas the 55mm of the Pentax is more like a slightly short lens, about 45mm.
I don't know why Pentax specifies the focal length used for the magnification states, and Leica doesn't. Can someone who understands these specs better than I make some kind of statement about the size of the Pentax viewfinder?
Leica has chosen the 70mm lens as their normal lens, but this works out to a slightly long lens, 56mm in 135 terms, whereas the 55mm of the Pentax is more like a slightly short lens, about 45mm.
I don't know why Pentax specifies the focal length used for the magnification states, and Leica doesn't. Can someone who understands these specs better than I make some kind of statement about the size of the Pentax viewfinder?