Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:37 AM, graywolf wrote: > >> 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. > > I've replaced split image rangefinder focusing screens with a plain > matte focusing screen in virtually every SLR I've owned since 1968 > for exactly the same reason. I don't even like too many scribe > markings near the center of the focusing screen, they get in the way. > > Godfrey >
Ditto. -Adam -- 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.
