I'd recently purchased Chinese version of double 45° split AF screen for my K20D from ebay, made by Travor. I didn't expect much of it, and same time I didn't expect to have grease stains on it either, so my installation started with washing it in dish washing liquid as recommended by Katz-Eye. The trick was to avoid getting water stains after blowing off water. I didn't have distilled water so I used Cokin lens paper to quickly absorb liquid before it could leave hard mineral stains. It is clean now and installed.
What can I say? It looks as a bit bogus (if not annoying), cos Pentax own AF is quite reliable, perhaps I shall change my mind after macro photos but I don't see any point of buying one even for $22 (postage inclusive). Pentax own white matte has better finish, so it's slight brighter than this one from Travor. Stored my Pentax White matte in case I decide to change it back and I know how to get rid of hard stains it had on it after a 2 years of camera use. Any of you have experiences with split screen focusing screens. How do you like them. ________________________________________________________________________ K20D, DA 10-17, D-XENON 18-55, DA* 16-50, FA 50 F1.4, DA 50-200, ELINCHROM, BOWENS more @ roman.blakout.net | roman.4models.info -- 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.
