Holding the camera upside down with the front of the camera facing towards you gently press down and back on the wire to unhook it from the black plastic clip and bob’s your uncle it pops right up. There basically is a wire spring/clamp (not all that dissimilar from a traditional mouse trap) that holds the screen in place in the camera. The changeover was super easy once I half ignored the badly translated Taiwanese instructions and just looked at it logically. Now I feel obligated to tell the internet about how it all worked out :) So the long and the short of it I got tired of waiting for someone to try them out and I tried one out myself.
Seriously at the time of this post the first three google hits for ‘ nikon df focusing screen‘ are Nikon Rumors saying hey these are available but nothing more, forums filled with people wanting a review, and Flickr Discussion board filled with people asking if anyone had tried it out. Now as near as I could discover researching this on the Internet was that everyone would say that these aftermarket focus screens were available but it would seem that no one wanted to spend the money to find out if they did or did not suck/work. To that I say yes it works great but it sucks to look away from your subject to the green dot and then back to the subject that chances are has moved :) The green Dot is awesome for stationary or slow moving stuff but street photos or what not it sucks to actually use in real life.
Now I can already hear you all cracking your knuckles getting ready to type out a long “But the two arrow/green dot rangefinder system is really good and accurate and Bla Bla Blaa….” comment.
It did seem odd to me that they would make it compatible with any of the older Nikon manual focus lenses but they wouldn’t give a great way to focus them. One of the biggest complaints about the Nikon DF retro styled camera (other than it doesn’t do video) is that it didn’t come with (or at least have an option for) an old school split screen manual focus screen.
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