I only recently moved from all the way right to one click from the far right edge.
Originally posted by prajno Thanks for the replies. I was so busy trying to focus on the image that I didn't realize the information on the viewfinder was also getting adjusted. D'oh! I have mine now set to 1 step in from the right and seems okay. I guess the K200D camera just seems harder to focus manually? In the old 35mm SLRs it seemed a little easier - this seems of concern when considering manual focus lenses (pentax smc -m) for this dSLR. Have you guys had any issues with this?
I think there's two reasons why focusing might be tougher than what you're used to. With my K1000, the viewfinder is absolutely huge. The DSLRs from Pentax use a cropped sensor, so the viewfinder is smaller. I think that has a lot to do with it.
Secondly, the focusing screen is very basic - just a matt field. Upgrading to a split screen focus helps a lot of folks, but cheap bastards (such as myself
)have really come to rely on the focus confirmation in the viewfinder to help out.