I never liked microprism focusing aids very much. The Pentax Spotmatic had a good viewfinder, regardless, although not quite as good as the Nikon F I bought in 1969, which had a type A screen as standard (plain matte fresnel with central split-image) and replaced it with an E screen almost immediately (plain matte fresnel with 'thirds' horizontal/vertical reference scribings). That remains my favorite focusing surface today.
The only 35mm SLR viewfinder system that I liked more of the ones I had was the Nikon F3/T with hp focusing head. The K10D viewfinder system reminds me very much of that Nikon. I just wish I could get an E screen for it ... the LL-80 has too many markings for AF and such, seems cluttered to my eye like the LL60 for the *ist DS. Godfrey On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:50 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > A Danish guy gave me an the old Spotmatic, I wrote about some time > ago. > I really like the focusing scrreen and soft focusing coil. > This way of focusing is brilliant - by means of a micro-prism > screen/field. > This camera must hve been way ahead of its time - compared to > Exakta's and > such > Especcially the Spotmatic F (must get one someday) .No wonder they > were such > a huge success. > I wonder if I could get screens like this in my *ist D and K10D? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
