David Stowe wrote on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 7:46 AM:
> In the old days of film and manual focus only cameras
> focussing screens were fantastic and had split prisms etc to
> ensure you were getting what you wanted in focus. Since the
> advent of auto focus teh focussing screens are designed to
> help the AF system not the user.
> This i think is the single biggest reason why manually
> focussing modern cameras is quite difficult.
I didn't know that. I assume the optical screens on DSLRs are much better that
the approx 100k pixel electronic viewfinder on my Canon S3, but perhaps not so
much better as I thought. Are there particular brands and models that have
better focusing screens than the rest?
Given the number of occasions that the bird is behind twigs or leaves, I would
have thought that the quality of manual focusing was essential, yet it doesn't
seem to be discussed that often.
Peter Shute==============================www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
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