{"id":1383,"date":"2011-05-29T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2014-02-09T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:44:40","slug":"replacement-focusing-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/replacement-focusing-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"KatzEye Replacement Focusing Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking around for replacement focusing screens and ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katzeyeoptics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KatzEye Optics<\/a>.  Everything I&#8217;ve seen has been positive so far.  So I thought I&#8217;d pass this along.<\/p>\n<p>Their replacement screens cover many different DSLRs from several manufacturers including Leica, Pentax, Olympus, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Panasonic and Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>The attraction for me is the enhanced focusing ability when using manual focus lenses.  DSLR focusing screens are sub-optimal for manual focusing.<\/p>\n<p>One nice thing about them is that they have a service to replace the screen for you.  This is wonderful news for those that might be a wee bit nervous about accidentally damaging the sensitive parts of the camera.<\/p>\n<p>I have not used their product yet, but do intend to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dgrin.com\/showthread.php?t=49285\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a review I found on the KatzEye focusing screen for a Canon DSLR.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of a KatzEye Focusing Screen on a Nikon D7000<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_vwZxfLe7Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking around for replacement focusing screens and ran into KatzEye Optics. Everything I&#8217;ve seen has been positive so far. So I thought I&#8217;d pass this along. Their replacement screens cover many different DSLRs from several manufacturers including Leica, Pentax, Olympus, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Panasonic and Samsung. The attraction for me is the enhanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[99,101,98,102,105],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-photography","category-lenses","tag-canon","tag-leica","tag-nikon","tag-olympus","tag-pentax"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}