alexdumitru

<p>Hi Claudia,</p>

<p>There are no Canon manufactured replacements for 5d Mark III's focusing screen but there are at least two 3rd party manufacturers of very good, though expensive focusing screens for your camera: Haoda and Brightscreen. I owned once a Brightscreen on my Contax RTS III and it was great, but it seems that the original owner of Brightscreen passed away recently and the company is reorganizing.</p>

<p>Haoda on the other hand still sells its 5D Mark III replacements.<br>

Check this thread:<br>

<a href="http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=15635.0">http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=15635.0</a><br>

Here is the haoda site:<br>

<a href="http://www.focusingscreen.com/">http://www.focusingscreen.com/</a> click the Canon link to see all the models<br>

Here are the instructions on how to change the focusing screen on 5D Mark III.<br>

<a href="http://www.focusingscreen.com/work/5d3en.htm">http://www.focusingscreen.com/work/5d3en.htm</a></p>

<p>Does not seem excessively complex and probably a camera repair shop can do it for you easily.</p>

<p>Best regards, Alex</p>

<p>I am using the Zeiss C/Y 50mm 1.4 on a 5D Mark II body.</p>

<p>I also replaced the default focusing screen with an Eg-S Super Precision Matte Focusing Screen, otherwise the manual focusing is painful.</p>

<p>Unfortunately the relatively good price of this venerable lens must be offset by the price of a good adapter. After experimenting with several brands on the market, including more upscale brands such as photodiox, I finally settled on Leitax <a href="http://leitax.com/Zeiss-Contax-lenses-for-Canon-cameras.html">http://leitax.com/Zeiss-Contax-lenses-for-Canon-cameras.html</a>.</p>

<p>This is a fixed adapter, and you will need to replace the original lens mount ring held in place with three screws (any decent camera repair shop will do this for you in less than 10 minutes, in case it sounds scary). The adapters can be also delivered with a microchip that will allow you to edit some EXIF information and provide a mostly useless focus confirmation signal to the body.</p>

<p>Mechanically though the mount is perfect: Accurate and rock solid, worth every penny of its 60 Euros price.</p>

<p>Best regards, Alex</p>

<p>Would the images in the private folder be protected against indexing by the search tool crawlers? In other words, if the folder is "private" I would expect that the images within cannot be indexed and found through Google, for example.<br>

Is this true? </p>