First thing I did when I bought my istDS 6 years ago was to replace the stock focus screen. I went with a generic chinese split image screen. It makes manual focussing a pleasure compared to stock and highly recommended for anyone using manual focus lenses.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Krisjanis Linkevics Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:49 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: I like my focusing screen Some 18 months ago I bought a K3 (Nikon) focusing screen for my K5 from focusingscreen. It was a tough choice between K3 and KatzEye, the K3 was a little cheaper so I went with that. My thoughts? Probably the best accessory I could have ever bought for the K5. The stock screen is useless for critical manual focusing, this one makes it pure pleasure. Ideally I would have wanted a 45 degree split prism but the horizontal one works well enough for most situations. I consider myself lucky in that it worked right away with no shims or other adjustments and gives me perfect focus at f2.8 with all the lenses I care about. The 50 f1.2 at portrait distances still requires live view but only because the DOF is way too shallow to do the classic focus/recompose thing. Even live view isn't perfect for that if only for the time it takes for the camera to go out of live view for the actual exposure. I have no problem with autofocus, most times it is up to the task on K5 - and way faster than manual focus. kris -- 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. -- 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.
