Doug Kerr
Well-known member
Across the current wave of speculation regarding potential configurations for potential new camera lines, we sometimes see mention of the possibility that a certain configuration would include a pellicle mirror in a single-lens reflex formulation, the usage often seeming to imply that the author believes that this term refers to a mirror:
a. Whose substrate is a stretched thin film.
b. That is semi-reflective.
c. That is fixed.
Sometimes aspect "a" is not given much import.
In fact the term pellicle, applied to a mirror, only implies "a". (The word comes from a root meaning, essentially, "skin".)
The tendency to think that the term also implies "b" and "c" doubtless comes from the fact that, in the general field of still photography, our greatest awareness of cameras using a pellicle mirror perhaps relates to the Canon Pellix camera, which used a fixed, semi-reflective pellicle mirror in a single-lens reflex formulation.
Best regards,
Doug
a. Whose substrate is a stretched thin film.
b. That is semi-reflective.
c. That is fixed.
Sometimes aspect "a" is not given much import.
In fact the term pellicle, applied to a mirror, only implies "a". (The word comes from a root meaning, essentially, "skin".)
The tendency to think that the term also implies "b" and "c" doubtless comes from the fact that, in the general field of still photography, our greatest awareness of cameras using a pellicle mirror perhaps relates to the Canon Pellix camera, which used a fixed, semi-reflective pellicle mirror in a single-lens reflex formulation.
Best regards,
Doug