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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 221566" data-attributes="member: 16749">I'm now seriously tempted to get this for my D3200.  I have some old lenses that I used to use with my F2, that I now use with my D3200, and the stock screen really isn't that good for focusing old manual-focus lenses like these.  I get that this was sacrificed for the sake of a brighter viewfinder, and it was probably assumed that the typical owner of this camera would rarely—if ever—want to use it with old lenses like mine.  Any reason to think this would be any worse, this way, than the stock (“Type A”) focusing screen in my F2?  If it's at least as bright as my F2, then I can certainly live with that, and consider it a worthwhile tradeoff for the ability to more easily focus my older lenses.  Oddly, the slowest lens I currently own is the stock 18-55mm lens that came with my D3200, which becomes slower as I zoom it to longer focal lengths.  I just mounted it on my F2 to see what the experience would be like of using it with the F2's Type A focusing screen.  Indoors, in a poorly-lit room, I have to admit that I miss the brightness when this lens is zoomed in, and manual focusing via this screen gets a bit tricky at that end of its range, but since this is also the only autofocus lens I own, I don't expect that I'd find that to be a significant disadvantage.  Now that's a good question.  I know that there is a different sensor than the main image sensor for autofocusing.  I don't know where this sensor is located, nor what the light path is to it.  It does seem very likely to me that the focusing screen is along this light path, and could very plausibly have an adverse effect on autofocusing.  That's definitely something I'd want to know about before I considered installing the Bresson.</blockquote>

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