Really odd question about the viewfinder in my 5D

OK, I think this might sound pretty strange to everyone here but I'd like to hear your thoughts...

Does anyone else find their viewfinder a little large?

It seems to me that when taking a shot it would make more sence to view the entire image though the viewfinder as a whole, which I think I could do if it where a little smaller, as it is iv got to look around to fully understand what I'm looking at.

Then theres the problem of the shutter speeds/iOS information at the bottom. Iv got to totally adjust my eye to look down to see those, then bring my eye back up and focusing it on what I see.

Honestly it's not that much of an issue for me, I don't think iv really ever missed a shot because of it, it just feels like I'm sitting at the very front of the cinima sometimes, and I just can't get all the information in as quickly as I would like.

It's something like a 90% coverage of the actual image, so compared with the crop cameras, the viewfinder is huge.

Even on the 1.6 cameras, I have to struggle to see the information bar at the bottom. The original 1D is even worse for me, as it moves the exposure info off to the right.

Whenever I pick up a film SLR, I wish I had that kind of viewfinder on my primary camera, the 40D.

Well, coming from a 35mm film background, I always found the viewfinders on the crop cameras horribly tiny and dark. Getting the 5Dc whenit was first released was great. I looked through the viewfinder and thought "I'm home", it was back to a proper viewfinder. Yes, there is more room to look around, I like that, I can see things that need to be dealt with easier and do something about it, before seeing the problem on the PC later. It also makes manual focusing easier.

If you have come from a crop only background, it might take a little while to get used to, I suppose. Those from a 35mm SLR background will feel right at home.

I wear eyeglasses while shooting, so no viewfinder is big enough for me!

5D classic gives 95% coverage of the actual image area. 5DII improved on that to 98% and 5DIII is 100% (same as 1D series and 7D).

Yeah, I'm an old film shooter, too... so I've seen some better viewfinders than we enjoy today. In fact, always wished that SLRs could be fitted with a viewfinder like some of the rangefinder cameras had... more than 100%. Some seemed to be 110 or 115%, with a "brightline" frame indicating the image area. Those were cool because you could see what was just outside the image area and quickly decide on the fly whether or not to recompose a little to include it in the image. Unfortunately anything over 100% in an SLR makes for a big increase in size and weight of the pentaprism and the entire camera, to accomodate it.

I could turn off the data at the bottom of the viewfinder much of the time when I'm shooting (you could turn it off in the Canon A-1 in 1978, if memory serves)... But I do refer to it occasionally, so I'd rather it not be too intrusive since I'm trying to concentrate on my shootiing.