Practice question · Estimate
A typical non-professional single-lens reflex viewfinder showed less of the frame than actually reached the film. Roughly what percentage did it show?
Estimate on a scale from 70 per cent (70) to 100 per cent (100).
Hints
- Professional bodies were the ones that reached 100 per cent.
- Somewhere in the low nineties.
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93 (answers within ±4 count)
Why
About 93 per cent, with most bodies falling between 92 and 95. The missing sliver runs all the way round the edge, so the surprise it delivers is always at the border of the negative, the elbow, the sign, the parked van that nobody saw through the finder.
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