One of the things that I liked about the Pentax DS body was that it
supported interchangeable focusing screens.
I bought a Pentax LL-60 focusing screen as soon as they were
available ... hoping that it would be like my old favorite Nikon "E"
screen: a plain ground matte fresnel field with "rule of thirds" grid
lines. Well, unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out like that ...
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/LL60-focus-screen.jpg
The AF focus brackets kinda clutter up the grid.
So I was thinking about the Katz Eye Optics screens with their
optical focus aids. I don't want any split image prism or microprism,
but I found on their website that they offer a selection of grids and
format crop lines ... and it got me to thinking. Could they make a
screen without the focus aids and with just a bit of horizontal/
vertical reference line and an 8x10 proportion reference crop line?
I called and, to my delight, they can. So I've ordered a custom
screen that looks like this:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/custom-focus-screen-DS.jpg
It wasn't cheap ... about $140 plus shipping ... but I hope it will
be the answer I've been looking for.
Hey, if you gotta splurge on something, at least make it useful. :-)
Godfrey
