Looked at your photos ... My one advice: get closer, frame tighter. :-) > ... I'm curious if other people have this problem when manually focusing, and > what they do to fix it. ..
I see I'm not alone in my preference for plain matte fresnel focusing screens. ;-) Microprism and split prism focusing aids are usually distractions in SLR viewfinders, for me. I always changed my focusing screen to a simple, matte fresnel screen (with horizontal/vertical reference lines preferably) when possible. Longer lenses are easier to focus because when wide open the in-focus zone is shallow; short lenses are where focusing aids can help most. With any lens, good crisp contrast when wide open is the biggest aid to manual focusing, regardless of focusing screen, lens speed or focal length. Beyond that, it's a matter of skill through lots of practice. I find today that I still prefer manual focusing over any autofocus system on any SLR camera I've tried, and I've found that when I manual focus my "hit it on the nose rate" is always much better than when I allow the AF system to do its thing. Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic .... doesn't matter what the brand. Give me a good, contrasty lens and a clean focusing screen: it will do better than most AF systems. The EVF in the G1 is no exception, except that it makes nailing critical manual focus even easier than any of the optical reflex focusing systems I've used. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
