Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe my experience is unusual but even before autofocus I used plain ground glass screens for focussing. I have a grid GG screen in my R8 and the same in my OM4Ti. I preferred not to have the obstruction centre screen and anyway I always thought that micro-prisms and split image range finders were angled to look through a f5.6 window (they tend to go dark at apertures slower than this) so the effective range finder base is rather small - though perhaps we are more sensitive to micro-prisms than coincident type focussing? Anybody know? Frank On 20 Dec, 2005, at 21:13, Didier Ludwig wrote: > yes manual focus with the d200 gets rather difficult as it has no > interchangeable focusing screen, no inbuilt split screen, no > microprisms. Unfortunately not, btw. > Didier > > >> focusing via a gree dot is hard and there is no spilt focusing screen >> for any of the D2 or D200, so yes you can focus but >> >> On 12/20/05, Jayanand Govindaraj <jgovindaraj@eth.net> wrote: >>> The D1 & D2 series, which have replaceable screens and have 100% >>> viewfinders which are easy to focus, as well as the new D200 can >>> be used >>> with these lenses with virtually no loss of functions, including >>> matrix >>> metering. >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand Govindaraj >>> Chennai, India >>> >>> >>> mehrdad wrote: >>> >>>> but manual focus lenses will not do, they need to sell AF with >>>> ultrasonic motors like the canon or new nikon lenses. the current >>>> nikon DSLR's dont have any split focusing screen and frankly >>>> people in >>>> that world want automation. I think sigma is more equiped to build >>>> these lenses >>>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information