Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herbert Kanner >If you remember film SLR cameras, they all had a focusing aid in the >center of the screen, implying that just focusing on a ground glass >was sometimes difficult. The first kind I saw were a couple of >shallow crossed prims in the center, giving the effect of a split >image rangefinder. The Nikon A screen was supplied with the F. The "ground glass" (actually matte plastic) was fine for long lenses. The split-image focussing aid was handy for wider lenses where the ground glass was more difficult to focus. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com