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p.1 #1 · Help with focus screen for 5Dii

Which screen are you guys using? Any big difference between the Canon Eg-S and third party ones? Also anybody used these http://www.focusingscreen.com/index.php?cPath=21_98&osCsid=4924a442b72b7ed6144c13953aee07c0 ?

Oct 30, 2009 at 04:47 PM

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p.1 #2 · Help with focus screen for 5Dii

I use EG-S. Didn't dare buy a Haoda because I read that anything in the centre, whichever the design, may interfere with spot metering.

Oct 30, 2009 at 10:15 PM

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p.1 #3 · Help with focus screen for 5Dii

Please correct me if I'm wrong. From what I can read up so far, the Eg-S is pretty good replacement but the trade off is it's a little darker than the standard screen. There are alternatives such as the Brightscreen which retains the same amount of light similar to the standard but at a much more significant cost.

Oct 31, 2009 at 03:47 PM

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p.1 #4 · Help with focus screen for 5Dii

trivuong wrote:
Which screen are you guys using? Any big difference between the Canon Eg-S and third party ones? Also anybody used these http://www.focusingscreen.com/index.php?cPath=21_98&osCsid=4924a442b72b7ed6144c13953aee07c0 ?

Wow. Super. I've waited for months to restock their screens. Thanks for the pointer.

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Oct 31, 2009 at 04:16 PM

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p.1 #5 · Help with focus screen for 5Dii

The EG-S is considerably easier to manually focus with. As a loose example, with the stock screen i found myself rotating the lens back and forth within say 15 degrees, searching for the exact focus distance. With the EG-S it's a fraction of that, probably 5 degrees or less, since it's so obvious what's in focus and what isn't.

That's the good news. The bad news is, as everyone says, it's darker, quite a bit darker. With fast lenses it's ok, but with say anything slower than f2.8 it's a little on the dim side. Workable, but not bright.

You know when you put an old Olympus OM camera up to your eye and go 'Wow!' ? Well, it's not like that.

You know when you first got/tried a 5D after shooting a 20d/40d/etc., and go 'Wow!' ? well, this focusing screen basically un-wow's that kind of comparison.

That said, my EG-S is still in action because of the keeper rate. Out of 30 ish lenses, only 3 of mine are AF, so that's why

Oct 31, 2009 at 04:30 PM


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