Just to give the other point of view, I hate split image focusing devices. To me they are annoying, right in the middle of the picture where I want to see what I am looking at, and they are not as accurate as you guys seem to think they are. Plain ground glass with grid is my choice. It is interesting how many folks do not trust their eye.
In my opinion that is because they do not know how to focus a ground glass image. The trick is to trust that first instant when the imagae snaps into focus. If you start fiddling the focus back and forth your eye has time to try to adjust itself, and you will never get right. I have always found that I get a higher percentage of properly focused images that way than I do with autofocus. That method has a couple of other advantages; it is very quick, and you can focus anywhere on the screen. Tom C wrote: > I 3rd or 4th it. I've missed the split prism screen since my MX. It would > appear that when AF came along, it was arbitrarily decided that a focusing > aid for manual focus was no longer important. > > I used to, when starting out, take a steak knife with me and jam it in the > ground, wherever, at the point I wanted critical focus. I'd then use the > split screen to get it razor sharp. > > No need to ruin a shot because of missed focus. We're all fallible. > > Tom C. > > >> From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Katz Eye Split prism screen >> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:26:17 -0400 >> >> Me too. I have a few MF lenses I really like and that Matte screen is >> lacking. Either that or my eyes are. >> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/23/2007 3:59 PM >>> >> In a message dated 10/23/2007 10:04:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> My Katz Eye Split prism screen just arrived. I'll install it in my >> backup >> K10D tonight and give you a report after a couple of days of playing >> with >> it. and comparing it to the main. >> >> Regards, >> Bob... >> >> =========== >> I would be interested, now the price is down, I've been eyeing the >> K10D. And >> I want a split screen too. >> >> Marnie aka Doe :-) >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. >> >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's new at >> http://www.aol.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> !SIG:471e544485184412021166! >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
