RE: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-17 Thread Powell Hargrave
They don't have a set for Pentax yet, YES THEY DO! as of today. http://www.keoptics.com/

RE: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-17 Thread Don Sanderson
At 105-160 dollars you'd have to want one pretty badly. ;-) Don -Original Message- From: Powell Hargrave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 3:21 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital? They don't

Re: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-17 Thread P. J. Alling
At $105 or $140, (plus $40 if you want the metering pattern), I think I'll suffer through manual focusing with out focusing aids. At least for now. Powell Hargrave wrote: They don't have a set for Pentax yet, YES THEY DO! as of today. http://www.keoptics.com/ --

Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-16 Thread Jay Taylor
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone out there in PDML land. I am wondering if anyone has successfully had a different type focusing screen installed to replace the stock one on any of the digital cameras *istD, DS, DL or DS2? I am assuming this would be something that an authorized Pentax

RE: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-16 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Jay ... You might want to browse this site if you're thinking about switching screens. They don't have a set for Pentax yet, but they say that they are working on it. http://www.keoptics.com/ Shel [Original Message] From: Jay Taylor Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone out there

Re: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-16 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I use the Pentax LL60 divided matte screen. This is essentially the same as the stock screen but with a set of horizontal and vertical reference lines as compositional aids. I love it. Focusing screens on the D, DS, DS2 are user interchangeable, but not on the DL. A German company,

Re: Anyone tried different focus screen on digital?

2005-12-16 Thread P. J. Alling
Pentax makes two alternate focusing screens for the *ist-D/s/s2 series of cameras, they are user replaceable. I'm not sure if the DL can use them as well. Unfortunately none of these screens has a built in focusing aid either split image or micro prism. There was a third party making one a