The best 25 bucks i've spent all week. D-XXx owners take notice!!!

davidweaver

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/407315-REG/Nikon_25339_DK_21M_Magnifying_Eyepiece.html

This is why I swing by my area photo store on a regular basis. He took the last one he had and opened it and put it on my D300 and said I would buy it. Sold!!! It is great and a tiny 25 bucks locally. It works on a bunch of other Nikon cameras and I saw reports it works on some Canon models too! LOL. The best 25 bucks I've spent all week.

If you miss the split focus screens then you will LOVE this little gizmo from Nikon. It will really help me.

Too bad I got the last one as I was prepared to buy two more.

Shucks!

David

Robinivich

I picked up one of these ages ago to help with critical focusing for macro work, and can attest to it fitting on Canon bodies. It gives a couple benefits:

1. Cheap
2. Magnifies small viewfinders (350d in my case)
3. More nose space (sticks out more than the stock eyepieces, reducing nose oil on LCD, at least on the canons)

The disadvantages I've found:

1. The corners of the VF are vignetted and distorted
2. You probably won't see all your status info and your viewfinder image at the same time
3. The fit on Canon isn't perfect, it'll stay on there, but it doesn't necessarily line up exactly

All the downsides might be Canon-specific, so YMMV, I now have a 40D with the ultra precise matte (EF-S screen) so the magnifier doesn't get a lot of use these days, but it can still be nice on the 350d.

davidweaver

It "totally Rocks!" on my D300. The disadvantages you list may be specific to your Canon.

Excellent point (pun intended) about nose space. I don't have a big honker but I do recall mashing my face up against the standard finder. With this it will be a little nicer to not wipe so much face sweat on the back of the camera.

Robinivich wrote:

I picked up one of these ages ago to help with critical focusing for macro work, and can attest to it fitting on Canon bodies. It gives a couple benefits:

1. Cheap
2. Magnifies small viewfinders (350d in my case)
3. More nose space (sticks out more than the stock eyepieces, reducing nose oil on LCD, at least on the canons)

The disadvantages I've found:

1. The corners of the VF are vignetted and distorted
2. You probably won't see all your status info and your viewfinder image at the same time
3. The fit on Canon isn't perfect, it'll stay on there, but it doesn't necessarily line up exactly

All the downsides might be Canon-specific, so YMMV, I now have a 40D with the ultra precise matte (EF-S screen) so the magnifier doesn't get a lot of use these days, but it can still be nice on the 350d.

Pupator

And of course, the one for Sony DSLRs is $75!

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/475716-REG/Sony_FDAM1AM_FDA_M1AM_Eyepiece_Magnifier.html

Robinivich

That sony's a weird one, it's somewhere between an angle finder (2.3x magnification!) and one of these eyepiece guys (1.18x or 1.2x magnifications)

silverstangs

Interesting device...