16x9 grid focusing screen?

[Beau]

Hi,

I'm looking for a focusing screen with 2 horizontal lines to mark a 16x9 crop.
Does anybody now if such a thing exists and where I could find it?

Beau

[Ratmagiclady]

Oh, Katzeye has those as a custom option, actually, if you don't mind getting it on a split/microprism screen.

[Beau]

Hi Thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking for but it's a bit expensive.

190$ for the one with the crop lines and the AF area brackets.
245$ if you want 'OptiBright' treatment.

[Ratmagiclady]

Yeah, the options add up. I'm probably wanting one with some lines, too, (Doesn't much matter *what* lines, in my case, as long as I have something to look at when I set the diopter.)

There's another company out there that's cheaper and lets you pick from different kinds of screens and focusing aids, but I don't think they offer the custom crop lines.

[asdf]

Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady

Yeah, the options add up. I'm probably wanting one with some lines, too, (Doesn't much matter *what* lines, in my case, as long as I have something to look at when I set the diopter.)

There's another company out there that's cheaper and lets you pick from different kinds of screens and focusing aids, but I don't think they offer the custom crop lines.

When setting the diopter, you can look at the edges the split prism itself.

[Ratmagiclady]

Originally Posted by asdf

When setting the diopter, you can look at the edges the split prism itself.

Oh, is it an etched line or just the edge of where the microprism is? I've gotten fond of the stock lines, cause they're so clear and definitive for that, (my eyesight has a way of coming and going: there's actually a very small astigmatism and correction that the eye-muscles are always wanting to correct for: those muscles get tired to varying degrees and make everything kind of vague. )

It's not like I mind having AF brackets there: some people don't like a cluttered finder, to the point of not liking match-needles or anything: personally, I just tune that kind of thing out: if money were no object I'd probably have em put in the brackets and 8x10 crop marks in the corners.

It's actually *split prisms* that I usually find to be in the way, (when they're not being useful,) I'm always trying to use them for little groundglasses to get someone's eyelash or something. I'm always advocating to the wind for my idea of a screen for fast lenses with a microprism collar around a matte spot, to have both speed/assistance and fine focus/AF monitoring. I call the idea the 'Ratzeye' screen.