Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.8G

LenShepherd (e2 Member)

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2 Dec 2012 - 9:11 PM

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The screens are different, because the intent with AF is that you only use the screen for framing, not for focussing. There are no aids like split-image, rangefinder or fresnel patches which made focussing easier.


Lets agree to disagree.
I always used plain ground grass screens for manual focus on the Olympus system.
High end current digital is similar ground glass though around 3 stops darker with less focus "bite".
Even so for about a third of my AF body work I use manual focus - without any special difficulty.
In my experience the D200 did not quite equal best 100 ISO slide film, but the D300 and later digital cameras do.

thewilliam

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13 Dec 2012 - 5:30 PM

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It depends what sort of pictures you take. Have a look at the EXIF data for your favourite images and see which focal length your zoom lens was set to.

Sooty_1 (Critique Team)

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14 Dec 2012 - 12:32 AM

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I know. You already said.