Alan Browne wrote:

A "better" sports camera was the Canon 1n RS (pellicule mirror) as its
shutter delay was on the order of 5ms ... 10x faster than D/SLR's at the
mere cost of a stop of light in the VF and onto the film. I'm
disappointed Canon have not rolled this out in a DSLR esp. as the clean
higher ISO images overwhelm the stop of light loss.

Whoa, what a flashback. I haven't heard discussion of a pellicle mirror
in ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellicle_mirror


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