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 use (at all)

Set up on a tripod about 4 ft in front of a door and with the camera level focus on one of the vertical lines of the door. Now tilt the camera up or down slowly to about 45deg... watch if the split screen still shows that you are focussed. At the top of the door you won't be far off the simple 3:4:5 triangle which means the distance is now 5ft and if the split screen is still showing focussed, it's a complete waste of time.

Recipe

Well done with the picture John.... quite a nice fast viewer that the BBC have on that page.

Pity about the site update though.

A few months ago the "your local forecast weather page" had a really nice layout... then they gave it a facelift been horrible ever since.

The new layout on news has no left margin and makes it hard to read.

Seems to be the way of the world at present. Every thing I seem to buy has been updated by leaving things out The latest is a Panasonic 250GB HDD/DVD recorder the "delete button" has gone and you have to go into the menu's to delete a program. Luckily the Remote off the previous 80GB Recorder works the new one so I can work it with the 2 remotes..... Sorry make that 3 remotes The "Eject DVD" button had disappeared when I bought the 80GB recorder so I kept the remote from the one before that so that I could open and close the tray from the comfort of my armchair The S-Video socket has also gone, which I used to use with a movie camera. The Instant record buttons also gone from the recorder. At least it upscales a DVD to FULL HD which is marketing spiel for "It plays DVD's on your LCD TV"

That's very impressive, only the red label looks to
have suffered from the NR. Who would have thought the
2nd pic was at 6400ISO

35-105mm arrived 8:30am Sat. less than 48 hours after
buying it off Jon via bank transfer. Thank you Jon and
RM for the excellent service. Nice to see the RM
delivering on a Saturday when the Next Day terms
specify it will be Monday.

Very nice condition. Have to wait for the rain to
stop now.

I can't imagine any ebay seller using film.
The marks are also on his hands so it's not
dirt on the table

Could be a webcam or a point and shoot that
you can't get at the sensor, but if that were
the case it wouldn't have got there anyway.

Someone once told me that the enlarger lenses
in pro printing labs were absolutely filthy

I can't imagine any ebay seller using film.
The marks are also on his hands so it's not
dirt on the table

Really like the horse with the white stripe. Very unusual.

Ah!! but ebay can't tell you how many people ran away when they
saw the dirty sensor

This so called US Photo and Video dealer on ebay isn't exactly impressing buyers with his filthy sensor