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A while ago I read this post from the Epic Edits Blog and one of the pieces of gear that was mentioned by Brian Auer was the split image focusing screen from Haoda Screen which makes custom focusing screens for DSLRs and I instantly wanted one.

I began researching a bit into the subject and found that it was possible to replace the focusing screen found in the Nikon D60, which is the camera that I have, with one that had the split image in the middle, like those vintage SLRs. Since I don’t really have a good quality method of taking a photo of the viewfinder of my camera, I’ll have to look onto the Internet to better explain what this is to those of you who don’t know what a split image focusing screen is…so here we go with a couple of links and images

First we have a photo from Flickr which shows the split image focusing screen

As you may have noticed there is a small circle in the middle of the image and that’s exactly what the split image is all about. The we have the following link which provides a review on one of these focusing screens as well as a link to a more in depth article on how the whole technology works and it’s drawbacks

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