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by actionfromafar 688 days ago
Curiously, there was also a Canon SLR with a beam splitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Pellix

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Technically, many dSLRs use beam splitter principle and secondary mirrors to feed the image to AE/AF device at the bottom side of mirror box.
Sony also made some SLR that used beamsplitters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_SLT_camera