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To the people who love manual focus...
And your point is... ?
Posted by gartmore on 19/06/2010 - 15:16
To the people who love manual focus...
Hi Ken "What I want is an accurate focus screen that makes it very easy to see my plane of focus. I don't care how dim the screen is" I find it much better to focus on a bright high contrast screen personally, maybe it's just me. We have a Nikon D3000 at work, not my choice, it's totally hopel...
Posted by johnwhit on 19/06/2010 - 15:42
To the people who love manual focus...
To go back to that, the plain AF screen as supplied is fine. I find it easy to focus manually and bright enough. If it's too dark to focus manually then it must be some sort of night shoot where different techniques can be employed.
Posted by johnriley on 19/06/2010 - 15:47
To the people who love manual focus...
Hi Ken "What I want is an accurate focus screen that makes it very easy to see my plane of focus. I don't care how dim the screen is" I find it much better to focus on a bright high contrast screen personally, maybe it's just me. We have a Nikon D3000 at work, not my choice, it's totally hopel...
Posted by gartmore on 19/06/2010 - 16:11
To the people who love manual focus...
Hi Ken, Absolutely, some telephotos would black out half of the split image etc IIRC the split image was for lenses f/2.8 or faster. Bojidar Dimitrov's Pentax K-Mount Page gives some details: http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/misc/focus/screens/index.html Regards, John
Posted by johnwhit on 19/06/2010 - 16:18
To the people who love manual focus...
The Pentax Lenses and Accessories booklets contain this information. There are 10 di9fferent screens for MF use, but currently only 3 are needed for the AF cameras. Quite a few of the differences for the MF screens relate to split images not working with telephoto lenses and microprism angles bei...
Posted by johnriley on 19/06/2010 - 16:20
To the people who love manual focus...
They don't always agree on the point of focus either... This has been my experience with the cheap split prism that I tried. Even the angle of the eye to the viewfinder or rotating the camera has an effect. I haven't tried the KatsEye (too rich for me!), but found that manual focussing has been...
Posted by El Dingo on 19/06/2010 - 18:56
To the people who love manual focus...
The MX split prism screen is ok down to f4.5 or so, although eye position becomes more important.
Posted by Dangermouse on 19/06/2010 - 19:38
To the people who love manual focus...
I hardly ever use my one and only autofocus lens but have never felt the need to change the screen on my K100. Perhaps it isn't possible. I cut down an MG screen and wacked it in the K100D. Works well :) Pete
Posted by Transit on 19/06/2010 - 22:49
To the people who love manual focus...
When using manual lenses I just keep a watch on the focus confirmation hexagon. It works on plain screens in both my MZ-6 and K110d, the advantage (?) being that I can adjust slightly forward or backward on what the camera sees as in focus and still not lose lock. My MX does indeed become hard...
Posted by Hardgravity on 20/06/2010 - 07:00
To the people who love manual focus...
A more matt screen gives the illusion of shallower DOF as it makes an out-of-focus subject appear even more blurred, and a subject will appear to pop in to focus more dramatically as you turn the focusing ring. The original screens in Pentax DSLRs are pretty good in this way. Personally, I prefer...
Posted by iceblinker on 17/07/2010 - 17:36
To the people who love manual focus...
The original screens in Pentax DSLRs are pretty good in this way. Personally, I prefer aids of a KatzEye split-circle job. You might want to avoid the Optibrite version if you want to try one, DD. From what I understand they use the Nikon K3 screens so if you don't use their Optibright coating you m...
Posted by Anvh on 17/07/2010 - 17:41
To the people who love manual focus...
I've never liked split image viewfinders and I'm sure that they are less accurate in smaller viewfinders. I've always focused on the plain area and the standard K20D screen is fine with a KPS 1.3x magnifier. The green light is also good. Try this experiment to see if your split screen is of any u...
Posted by Algernon on 17/07/2010 - 17:52
To the people who love manual focus...
I never liked sp-lit screens either. It depends on your eyesight though, and what might suit one person might not suit another. The first things is to check that the dioptre adjustment on the viewfinder eyepiece is set correctly.
Posted by johnriley on 17/07/2010 - 18:38
To the people who love manual focus...
The split circle is larger in proportion to the rest of the screen with APS-C viewfinders than it is with full frame ones. In fact sometimes they're the same when the screen is cut down from a ff one. So it's large enough. I find a split screen useful in the real world and the opposite of a waste...
Posted by iceblinker on 17/07/2010 - 20:02
To the people who love manual focus...
I don't know whether it's fact or rumour that Katz Eye use Nikon K3 screens. I recommend Katz Eye because I know they deliver a consistently high quality of goods and service. That's not to say others aren't just as good.
Posted by iceblinker on 17/07/2010 - 20:11
To the people who love manual focus...
Thank you Pete. I don't know either but that seems to be the speculation. Looked up some photos to compare the arrangement and all I can say is that they look quite the same, that doesn't need to mean anything off course. This the K3-screen from focusing screen in a Samsung GX-1S And this th...
Posted by Anvh on 17/07/2010 - 20:46
Pentax 645D images
I was only talking about Japan. And if any nation tends to work in unison, it's the Japanese. In my view, it's going to be highly sought after by a fairly small number of people. It'll mainly be the same people as owned a film 645, less those who have defected and won't change back, plus those ...
Posted by George Lazarette on 20/06/2010 - 10:05
Pentax 645D images
I was only talking about Japan. And if any nation tends to work in unison, it's the Japanese. In my view, it's going to be highly sought after by a fairly small number of people. It'll mainly be the same people as owned a film 645, less those who have defected and won't change back, plus those ...
Posted by robbie_d on 20/06/2010 - 10:10
Pentax 645D images
A perceptive answer George. Your choice of a Bronica was logical in that it works the "same way round" in terms of focus and aperture scales as Pentax and Nikon, unlike say the Mamiya MF cameras. At the price it's bound to be a small market, relatively speaking, but it has the possibility of e...
Posted by johnriley on 20/06/2010 - 10:13
