Beatties and Olympus series 2 screens are exactly the same brightness.
IMO, Olympus matte area is finer than Beattie. If you can find an
Olympus 2 screen, it should be for less $ than a Beattie.
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On 11/3/2008 9:55:19 AM, Dawid Loubser (dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What would you consider the best focusing screen (for focusing
> accuracy on the matte area, especially
> towards the edges of the frame) ? Especially with the 50mm f/1.4,
> although my other two most-used lenses
> is the 24/2.0 and 90/2.0 macro.
>
> The standard prism/microprism/matte screen is OK, but
> it's not great
> on the matte area, I am used to much
> more precise Canon 1-series matte focusing screens (surely matte-
> screen technology has evolved since
> the seventies). I am having a hard time seeing the 'sharp' plane of
> focus towards the edges of the screen.
>
> If it doesn't
> mess up the light-meter reading, all the better,
> although I do use incident metering 90%
> of the time in anyway, so it's no big deal. Should I be looking
> Olympus, or are other screens like
> Beattie Intenscreen better?
>
> thanks for any advice,
> Dawid
>
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