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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
