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Old 03-21-2010, 02:29 PM
Doug Pardee Doug Pardee is offline
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Originally Posted by inkista View Post
On my XT, swapping to a split-circle focus screen was impractical, as it didn't have an interchangeable screen
The screen on the XT/350D is as interchangeable as on all of the other Canon DSLRs. It's just that Canon doesn't supply any automatic compensation for in-camera metering differences.

I've had a Haoda split-circle screen in my XT/350D for over four years.

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I also go birding with an f/5.6 lens (a split circle's prism collar completely blacks out if the max. aperture is that small
Does that happen with the Katz Eye, too? They use a narrower angle for the split circle to push the blackout up toward f/11—at the expense of slightly less precise focusing—and I'd always assumed that the same was true of the microprism collar.
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