Yes, the OM 2 series screen is the brightest screen I have ever seen, but it
is too fine and a bit difficult to focus with wider lens (less than 50mm).
The Canon E-C is better balanced but still favor towards the long lenses.
The Beattie I had was very similar to Minolta Acute Matte and I just found
that you can still find the 7000i screens from B&H and it fits on OM cameras
with NO rework (there are two types available the "G" is standard screen and
the "L" is with Grid, both are with same brightness.). The old 7000 screen I
had was a little bit longer and need some trimming.
As a summary of my own opinion on the FCs.
1. The OM 2-4 FC - Excellent for long and small aperture lenses, not so good
for wide.
2. The Canon E-C New Laser Matte - Very good for long and small aperture
lenses, okay for wide.
3. The Minolta Acute matte - Very good for both long and wide lenses.
Actually the above three FCs works very well even with a 2x on my 85-250/F5,
only with the Minolta looks a bit coarse.
C.H.Ling
-----Original Message-----
From: Giles <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, May 29, 1999 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Use Series 2 or Beattie screens with OM-1n or 2n?
I believe C.H Ling quite recently mentioned that he had a Beattie and Oly 2
series
and that the latter was brighter. In a later post he mentioned a Canon
screen was
even better, though it had to be filed and trimmed to fit.
>>
Last time we have talked about bright focusing screen, now I found that the
bright and easy focus FC that came with the used OM-4 I got from a
professional photography was a Canon E-Series "E-C" screen. It took me a
long time to find it out because I didn't notice that the E-Series FC from
Canon have different brightness, I had got a E-screen with Grid lines that
was a "Laser-matte" while the "E-C" was "New Laser-matte", which is much
brighter than the old one.
The E-C is very cheap, I paid US$34 for two, they are now installed in my
OM-4 and 4Ti. The B&H price is $19.95, with slight modifications it works
very well with OM3s and 4s. I rate it very fine and brightness is between
OM's 2-series screen and Minolta 7000 series screen.
C.H.Ling
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