Thanks Andy. One person seems to understand my question.
Resolution may be lost (reducing aperture will do that), but again that's not a concern for me. It's not like I'm looking through a brick either. If I'm reducing my effective aperture from say 100mm down to 70mm, I'm still getting the wider field I'm after, and a 70mm aperture is still mighty fine for the application I'm after.
I hope
I'm making myself clear here now.
Reducing effective aperture is no sin, and thankfully no physical harm either,
. If you can't understand that, then that's a shame and I'll leave you to your sub 7mm exit pupils. The effect I'm after isn't predicated by adhering to a pucker tight definition of exit pupil. It
IS dictated by pushing the FOV to as wide as possible. If there is a trade off in exit pupil, I'm happy to live with that. Now, can we get back to these blasted eyepieces...