Problem: focussing in low-light candid situations, either where I don't want the AF light coming on and spoiling the moment, or where the AF light will do sweet bugger-all.

Eg.


That's a crop - the dude and the light would've been about ten paces away, way too far for the AF light to do any good. This is the closest to an in-focus shot I got, and it took about, erm, *eleven* goes and much groping around the focus ring to get even that.

The weedy little in-focus indicator which appears way over on the left side of the status bar in the viewfinder in manual focus mode is too small and too fleeting (it flashes on and off with so much as an eyeblink from the subject) to be of much use, so, short of shelling out $150 for a Katz Eye split prism screen, what else is there to do?