RichC
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It's the slightly dark focusingscreen.com screens or nothing. The screens themselves are high quality - modified genuine Canon (EOS 1 series etc) and Nikon (F6). The screens are precision cut (water jet?), so I guess you could do it yourself, but you need to be accurate to 0.1 mm (ideally 0.01 mm) to get the focusing patch central (I've engraved extra frame lines before onto screens, so know this from experience!)
There is no diagonal split screen version - presumably for technical reasons.
I'm happy, as all my lenses are f2 or f2.8, and focus with them is perfect.
As to why no camera manufacturer supplies screens - presumably they perceive the market for screens to be too small and too much hassle for them ("hassle" includes people damaging their cameras, complaints about misfocusing and incorrect exposure - companies today are very protective of their reputation, which can be quickly affected via the internet).
The trend for all consumer goods is for them to be self-contained "black boxes" that manufacturers don't consider to be modifiable/serviceable by consumers, partly for the reasons I've mentioned, partly because of the complexity of modern technological goods, partly for other reasons.
The epitome of this approach is Apple, where goods are sealed with glue and even the battery cannot be replaced by the owner. Want more memory? Well, buy another phone or tablet! I'm not singling out Apple - another example is my last (and expensive!) electric shaver: the battery died, but I couldn't just buy a replacement - the shaver had to go to the manufacturer for "repair", for the innards to be entirely replaced! I'm sure you can add your own examples.
So, presumably Nikon thinks the standard screen in all its camera models is entirely adequate for the target audience - I suspect people like us who prefer to use these "obsolete" screen types and manual lenses are not even on Nikon's radar, or ignored...
There is no diagonal split screen version - presumably for technical reasons.
I'm happy, as all my lenses are f2 or f2.8, and focus with them is perfect.
As to why no camera manufacturer supplies screens - presumably they perceive the market for screens to be too small and too much hassle for them ("hassle" includes people damaging their cameras, complaints about misfocusing and incorrect exposure - companies today are very protective of their reputation, which can be quickly affected via the internet).
The trend for all consumer goods is for them to be self-contained "black boxes" that manufacturers don't consider to be modifiable/serviceable by consumers, partly for the reasons I've mentioned, partly because of the complexity of modern technological goods, partly for other reasons.
The epitome of this approach is Apple, where goods are sealed with glue and even the battery cannot be replaced by the owner. Want more memory? Well, buy another phone or tablet! I'm not singling out Apple - another example is my last (and expensive!) electric shaver: the battery died, but I couldn't just buy a replacement - the shaver had to go to the manufacturer for "repair", for the innards to be entirely replaced! I'm sure you can add your own examples.
So, presumably Nikon thinks the standard screen in all its camera models is entirely adequate for the target audience - I suspect people like us who prefer to use these "obsolete" screen types and manual lenses are not even on Nikon's radar, or ignored...
