Remember Frank's tag line:
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Regards,
Bob...
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"Art is not a reflection of reality. it is the reality of a reflection."
-Jean Luc Godard
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From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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.
>>
>>> From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>> 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 >>>
>>> [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.
>>>
>>> I would be interested, now the price is down, I've been eyeing the
>>> K10D. And
>>> I want a split screen too.
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