It may be useful to you, it may be useful to everyone on the planet except
me. I don't know. For sure it's a distraction. My point is that I desire as
few of those as possible within my view area. I want to see what I shoot, I
do not want to have some mechanism or device indicate to me when an
obscured scene lies within some theoretical depth-of-field focus.
That's what the Stylus is (was? does Olympus still make that camera?) for.
None of that is meant to be dictatorial. I fully realize each photographer
will have his preference. Mine happens to be for simplicity.
Tris
At 03:28 PM 7/14/01 +1000, you wrote:
The shimmer is not distracting... it occurs on either side of the critical
focus point at which it becomes rock solidly sharp. Very useful :)
At 03:11 PM Saturday 14/07/2001, you wrote:
What I like about the Beattie is the increased light it lets into the
view area. I've had a couple days to work with the 82400 w/etched lines
done by Hermanson and I've got to tell you that focus screen presents one
sweet setup. If I were forced to apply a term I'd say "superb." by the
way, I've also worked some with the camera (OM-1n) I'm giving my
daughter. It has a 1-4 in it and I had John etch lines on that screen as
well. Once again, all I perceive is improvement to the view system.
As for the "shimmer" of the 2-4: I want to clearly see the image of
what's before me, nothing else. The simpler the better here.
Tris
At 01:10 PM 7/14/01 +1000, you wrote:
I own the Beattie, and both 2 series screens. I disagree that the
Beattie is better than the 2 series screens. The 2-4 in particular has
what Gary Reese describes aptly as the "fine detail shimmer" at critical
focus and I noticed this independently the moment I installed the screen
some months ago. I've had a fair chance to use the Beattie and used it
for several rolls in my OM-3 but last week changed it over to my 2-4 and
I don't think I'll be changing it back any time soon.
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