They suck with any lens faster than f2 or slower than f4. They black out with the latter, and with the former, your depth of field is too shallow wide open to focus and recompose accurately with subjects that are within 10'-15' of you.
-Adam Cory Papenfuss wrote: > You guys must be better than I at using plain matte screens. The > best thing I've ever done with my -DS was *add* a split-prism focus > screen. Probably about 1/10th as many missed focus shots since I've done > that. > > I agree that micproprism aids suck with lenses slower than 2.8 or > so. With a fast 50 or similar, they're beautiful IMO. To each their > own... that's why they're *replaceable*. > > -Cory > > >>I've done this on every SLR camera I've owned since 1969. I hate >>microprism focus aids particularly, but split image rangefinders are >>also obnoxious. >> >>G >> >>On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Adam Maas wrote: >> >> >>>I'm actually in the process of replacing all my split-prism screens >>>with >>>plain screens, where possible. I find split-prisms annoying as they're >>>never where you need them ... >> >> >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
