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kit laughlin

Subscriber Member
Yesterday, Jim Lakey confirmed that he had the BL-3 battery caps in stock, and he is sending that with the new 24/3.5 TS, and a Brightscreen (Proscreen) for the D3 for me to test. I am excited! I am very much looking forward to trying the ZF lenses on the D3 (I just have not had time in the last five months) and the Proscreen is just a great reason to play.

All this new stuff will arrive while I am in another city (book shoot and a workshop in the same city) so will have to wait, but if I like it, then I will get one for the D300, too, but send the body to Jim for fitting, testing and calibration. Even when AF-ing, I like the way the huge centre microprism goes completely clear as it focusses, just another confirmation.

I sold that 80-200 and the new owner loves it. I replaced it with the 70–200 VR, and the TC 1.4 II extender. Both work fine on both bodies—my testing setup may simply have been at the minimum focussing distance and I was confusing the results. cheers, kl
 

Steen

Senior Subscriber Member
Kit, is it easy for the user to change the screen on the D3, I thought it was built in and that you needed a bit more advanced camera surgery to change it ?
 

kit laughlin

Subscriber Member
Piece of cake: pull clip, remove and swap screen, close clip. Had to do it in the field last week (very dusty). Takes seconds. Cheers, KL
 

Steen

Senior Subscriber Member
:eek: whoa, thanks Kit, I'm surprised to hear this, never saw that in the specifications when the camera was announced and released. In my mind a very important detail.
But with the D300 it ain't quite that simple, right ?
 

harmsr

Workshop Member
Kit,

I'll be very interested in what difference the focusing screen actually makes on the D3. I find the D3 much easier to manual focus than the D300. I have no issue manual focusing anything up to 50mm on either camera, but found the 85/1.4 difficult with the factory screen.

When I had the D200, I had one of Jim's screens with the split image and microprism collar. However, I did not like the split center when using autofocus lenses. I often also moved slightly to use the microprism collar when focusing if there were no straight lines to split. I guess this means that maybe I should have tried the 13mm microprism only spot.

Please let me know if it improves your focusing ability any on the D3.

Best,

Ray
 
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