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Aufa, I bought a cheapy from ebay. It arrived fine and looked the part. Peeling off the protective plastic revealed a delicate and impressive surface. But I find its quite some way out. It looks (by eye) slightly thicker than the normal screen. Also the diagonal split is not that great. Pers...
Posted by Aufa on 13/11/2009 - 09:56
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The 30 or so Euro/Pounds is for VAT. VAT is payable if you're in the EU and you order an item from outside the EU that costs over a certain amount (£18 in UK, including postage). Katz Eye is in the USA. Yes Katz Eye screens are expensive, but sometimes expensive things are worth buying!
Posted by iceblinker on 13/11/2009 - 10:45
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Pete, have you fitted a Katz Eye split screen to your K-7? I've been thinking about one of these for some while, might make me more inclined to manual focus more than I do at the moment. My concern would be effective operation at small apertures with my D-FA 100 macro.
Posted by Greytop on 13/11/2009 - 11:44
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Aufa wrote: But, when you use splitscreen from focusingscreen.com, there is no black thing in the upper part when you use f12 or above? The two cheap versions will both black-out from f8 and smaller. It depends a bit on the light levels, and used lens. The Katz screen is much better. No black-o...
Posted by Malo1961 on 13/11/2009 - 12:31
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Aufa wrote: But, when you use splitscreen from focusingscreen.com, there is no black thing in the upper part when you use f12 or above? The two cheap versions will both black-out from f8 and smaller. It depends a bit on the light levels, and used lens. The Katz screen is much better. No black-o...
Posted by gregmoll on 13/11/2009 - 13:50
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Pete, have you fitted a Katz Eye split screen to your K-7? I've been thinking about one of these for some while, might make me more inclined to manual focus more than I do at the moment. My concern would be effective operation at small apertures with my D-FA 100 macro. Yes, I received my new Katz...
Posted by iceblinker on 13/11/2009 - 15:26
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ps. It's not necessarily a problem even if the split-circle does black-out. You can focus before stopping-down, and ignore the cirle when stopping-down to examine depth-of-field optically.
Posted by iceblinker on 13/11/2009 - 15:31
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Just to make sure that I understand this statement, are you saying that with the lens focused wide open and then manually stopped down to f11-14 and the image on the focusing screen has gone dim, that the split half circle does not go black. Greg Well.....Pete already answered this question. And ...
Posted by Malo1961 on 13/11/2009 - 15:55
Split image (between ebay, splitscreen.com and KatZ eye)
Pete, have you fitted a Katz Eye split screen to your K-7? I've been thinking about one of these for some while, might make me more inclined to manual focus more than I do at the moment. My concern would be effective operation at small apertures with my D-FA 100 macro. Yes, I received my new Katz...
Posted by Greytop on 13/11/2009 - 16:19
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OptiBrite and Rule of Thirds. The RoT lines look elegant and not too distracting. Brackets not needed as I don't worry about precisely where the focusing points are all the time. I did think about not having OptiBrite to make focusing "snappier" on the matt field, but it's nice to have as bright ...
Posted by iceblinker on 13/11/2009 - 16:39
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It's only a problem on slow lenses or when stopping any lens down with the optical preview lever. For macro photography, I would use Live View or Digital Preview at small apertures rather than Optical Preview. Well.....Pete already answered this question. And I second his words. As I said, It depe...
Posted by gregmoll on 13/11/2009 - 17:45
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I've been wondering ... How well do you think these split screens really are in the cases where the subject is outside the focus area. I mean putting the subject in the center - focus - and then turn the camera to recompose the picture will in some cases change the distance? I thought about this the...
Posted by Joe S on 13/11/2009 - 18:11
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Greg, The bolded part (f2.8 ) refers to the type of lenses I used. Not to the level of stopping down. A focus screen will be less prone to black-out with the use of a fast prime lens, compared to a "slow" zoom lens. But when stopped down manually to F11-F14 the Katz screen will show little to no b...
Posted by Malo1961 on 13/11/2009 - 18:48
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I've been wondering ... How well do you think these split screens really are in the cases where the subject is outside the focus area. I mean putting the subject in the center - focus - and then turn the camera to recompose the picture will in some cases change the distance? I thought about this the...
Posted by Malo1961 on 13/11/2009 - 18:50
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Greg, there is partial darkening at and before f14 with the lenses I've tried, so I disagree with Malo on that specific point. Whether it's a problem or not depends on you and what you're doing. Joe, yes, there can be errors when focusing and recomposing like you describe with nearby subjects - b...
Posted by iceblinker on 13/11/2009 - 18:51
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Greg, there is partial darkening at and before f14 with the lenses I've tried, so I disagree with Malo on that specific point. Whether it's a problem or not depends on you and what you're doing. Thanks Pete, I always focus wide open and then stop down. What I was trying to clarify in my mind was ...
Posted by gregmoll on 13/11/2009 - 19:27
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I realize this topic is old but has any one used this type of screen. K10D K3 Focusing Screen (Grid) from here Regards
Posted by CoDa on 04/12/2009 - 22:36
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Fitted my new Katz Eye screen today. Must say it's really very nice (read very useful), takes me back to my film days :D I went for the OptiBrite and AF area brackets in the end (the inner brackets roughly line up with the rule of thirds positions). Only very slight negative is that screen sits a ...
Posted by Greytop on 05/12/2009 - 14:38
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I've looked at these but can't really justify spending the money on them. I find focussing manually with the plain glass screen on my Km simple enough, although admittedly it would be quicker with a split screen. I only use K mount lenses so don't have to focus stopped down.
Posted by Dangermouse on 06/12/2009 - 01:01
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I realize this topic is old but has any one used this type of screen. K10D K3 Focusing Screen (Grid) from here Regards I like that they have different types of screens so I'm also intersting in some feedback about them. What's laser matt btw?
Posted by Anvh on 06/12/2009 - 01:20
