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Subject: Re: [OM] E-20N User's Report Long
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:04:12 -0400
No question a split image would be nice, but I'm getting use to it.  It has
pretty good 'snap', so I don't have a huge problem telling when it is in
focus.

Tom

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:17:30 -0700, Winsor Crosby
<wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>
>Another dumb question, but I am confused.  How do you tell if it is
>focused if you are turning a ring?  What is the feedback the camera
>gives you to let you know? Or are we just setting an estimated
>distance here.

Only the display on the "ground glass" screen - just like a
conventional SLR but there's no focus aid like a split image or
microprism or even a focus confirmation signal (in manual). The ring
is not *mechanically* linked to the focussing elements in the lens; it
actuates the focus motor and there's even a bit of a lag in the
response.  And, of course, there's no distance scale or any means of
estimating DOF.

I can "get on with it" but I certainly don't like it.


John Gruffydd (Mold, Wales, UK)




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