Harrison McClary wrote: > I have the 1n's...to me the stock screen was very bad. I replaced > the screens in both of my 1n's with Beattie screens, the ones with > grids. > > The screens in the 1's are a little darker because the AF sensors > require more light to be able to focus so fast.
I don't think this is true - The 1s are darker because their default screens are etched fairly coarsely, probably because Canon assumes that 1-series customers are more likely to focus manually. Both the 1n and 1v can accept "bright" screens of the sort found on consumer Canon bodies without any loss of AF performance, and with those screens their viewfinders are as bright as any other EOS - The only gotcha is that you just need to make sure that the setting of CF0 matches the screen in use. The only EOSes I can think of that actually have inherently dim viewfiners as you suggest above are the RT and 1n-RS, which have partially reflective fixed-pellicle mirrors. I have both an EOS-3 and a 1v, and have two each of the Ec-CIII (the laster-matte screen that ships with the 1v) and Ec-N (the new laser matte screen that comes with the 3). I tend to use the Ec-CIII screens in both bodies, because I find that this screen, though dimmer, snaps more cleanly into focus for off-center subjects (the two types are about equivalent in the center circle, though). This is a classic tradeoff, by the way - More finely etched and brighter screens always tend to be a bit less snappy to focus. I find the Beatties to be absolutely horrible in that regard - The only time they really make sense is in dim light, where the extra brightness makes the difference between un-snappy focussing and no focussing at all. -- Patrick * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
