In <5.0.2.1.0.20010131154337.00a149f0@pop.freeserve.net>, Stuart wrote:
> But,of course ,no-one would do so while looking through the viewfinder as
> this would be extremely detrimental to ones eyesight and if the shutter
> was released would it not burn the blind ??
>
I don't think this is true of SLR's, as the image is formed on the ground
glass screen and then the eye at the viewfinder looks at that image rather
than the sun itself. In a viewfinder camera this might be different, as
there is no ground glass screen; you look straight through the viewfinder
lens(es). Also the mirror in such a camera covers the shutter blind until
the last second, after which the blind moves very fast, I doubt if it would
be focused on the blind of film for long enough to have any effect.
Brian Rumary, England
