BlindmanE500
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Dioptar setting
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Gary Stallones
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Adjust until the image appears sharp for you....
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Mark424x
Well-known member
(1) Turn the camera off.
(2) Detach the lens.
(3) Look through the viewfinder at something with moderate brightness until the lines on focusing screen are sharp.
(2) Detach the lens.
(3) Look through the viewfinder at something with moderate brightness until the lines on focusing screen are sharp.
how do I adjust
You do not set the diopter adjustment by looking at the image on the focusing screen.
If you wear glasses for distant viewing, you should wear glasses while using your camera and while setting the diopter adjustment because the camera’s optical system must be treated as a distant object. With your glasses on, look through the viewfinder eyepiece and focus your eye on the etched AF points on the viewfinder screen - not the scenery image the camera is displaying in the viewfinder. While looking at the AF points rapidly move the diop-ter adjustment lever back and forth until you arrive at the point where the double lines making up the AF points are clearest and, hopefully, seen as small paired lines instead of a single thicker line. When this is achieved, the diopter setting is correct. If several diopter settings each appear to be good, select the one that is in the middle. Movement of the diopter adjustment lever back and forth must be rapid or else your eye will try to compensate focus when the focusing screen is clearly out of focus leading to an incorrect diopter adjustment.
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Good Shooting,
English Bob
If you wear glasses for distant viewing, you should wear glasses while using your camera and while setting the diopter adjustment because the camera’s optical system must be treated as a distant object. With your glasses on, look through the viewfinder eyepiece and focus your eye on the etched AF points on the viewfinder screen - not the scenery image the camera is displaying in the viewfinder. While looking at the AF points rapidly move the diop-ter adjustment lever back and forth until you arrive at the point where the double lines making up the AF points are clearest and, hopefully, seen as small paired lines instead of a single thicker line. When this is achieved, the diopter setting is correct. If several diopter settings each appear to be good, select the one that is in the middle. Movement of the diopter adjustment lever back and forth must be rapid or else your eye will try to compensate focus when the focusing screen is clearly out of focus leading to an incorrect diopter adjustment.
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Good Shooting,
English Bob
Mark424x
Well-known member
....I wasn't very clear
As EB said, you are not looking at an image on the focusing screen, but the etched lines in the focusing screen itself. But you do have to point the camera in the general direction of light to illuminate the etched lines.
As EB said, you are not looking at an image on the focusing screen, but the etched lines in the focusing screen itself. But you do have to point the camera in the general direction of light to illuminate the etched lines.
how do I adjust
Mike_PEAT
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Yep, that's the method... i can't understand that it is explained in the E-1 Manual, but not in the E-300's...You do not set the diopter adjustment by looking at the image on
the focusing screen.
If you wear glasses for distant viewing, you should wear glasses
while using your camera and while setting the diopter adjustment
because the camera’s optical system must be treated as a distant
object. With your glasses on, look through the viewfinder eyepiece
and focus your eye on the etched AF points on the viewfinder screen
While looking at the AF points rapidly move the diop-ter adjustment
- not the scenery image the camera is displaying in the viewfinder.
lever back and forth until you arrive at the point where the double
lines making up the AF points are clearest and, hopefully, seen as
small paired lines instead of a single thicker line. When this is
achieved, the diopter setting is correct. If several diopter
settings each appear to be good, select the one that is in the
middle. Movement of the diopter adjustment lever back and forth
must be rapid or else your eye will try to compensate focus when
the focusing screen is clearly out of focus leading to an incorrect
diopter adjustment.
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Good Shooting,
English Bob
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Comments are always welcome...
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If you just follow the E-1's instructions, you'll probably never get it set up properly. I wrote my suggested procedure in response to early E-1 users who were having difficulty with manual focusing because they couldn't get the diopter settings correct following the manual.Yep, that's the method... i can't understand that it is explained
in the E-1 Manual, but not in the E-300's...
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Good Shooting,
English Bob
Garry Frankel
Senior Member
BTW, our E-500's don't have a lot of diopter adjustments. I still have to wear my glasses because it won't adjust enough for me without the glasses. Perhaps a small minus for our camera, but given that I would be blind without my glasses anyway, I don't have to bother taking them on and off.
André
Well-known member
I consider it regrettable that Olympus does not provide an additional lens of corection for the users who does not carry their glasses!
Excuse my poor English!
Regards
André
Excuse my poor English!
Regards
André
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