If you're consistently off in the same direction, and roughly the same distance every time you manually focus, then it's more likely that the focusing screen is out of alignment with the sensor plane. A Katzeye screen won't help that. The camera needs to be sent to Pentax for adjustment.
Charles Robinson wrote: > On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:33, Thibouille wrote: > >> It seems, putting a DS/Katzeye scrren in a K10D (and K20D I suppose, I >> do not expect any change there) would cure (at least up to a certain >> point) the metering problems with K/M lenses and provide a situation >> comparable to D/DS etc bodies. >> >> > > I considered moving my DS screen to my K10D but was put off by all of > the metering problems I read about and so I "let the screen go" when I > handed my DS off to my daughter. > > As nice as the K10D screen is, I'm probably going to get a Katzeye for > it fairly soon (one which is made for the K10D). I was doing some > manual-focus work at my brother's house this weekend (dimly lit > interior with just a bit of cloudy-day daylight coming in the windows) > and almost all of my manually-focused shots were off - by a lot. > Seems I have a "back-focus" problem when using the F50 f/1.7 lens. I > was off by around 1-1.5 feet on almost every shot. :-( > > I think the split-prism would have helped a lot in this particular > situation. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- 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.
