>This also often happens even when direct sunlight isn't entering the
>viewfinder, due to light reflecting off your face or bright clothing. If
>you're not a glasses wearer you could try an eyecup, but as a foureyes I
>find simply shading thge viewfinder with my hand to be simpler. It's
>something that becomes second nature after a while, and has the added
>benefit of letting you see the viewfinder image much more crisply.
>Dylan
Speaking of four-eyes (me, too) one thing I prize in an optical device is
a long eye-relief (distance allowable from eyepiece to eye). I have the
most wonderful pair of astro binoculars with astounding eye-relief
(Adlerblicks), I can see everything to the edge while wearing my glasses
normally (not smashed up against my eyeball like a giant contact lens).
I've wished, on many occasions, that I could have a few more millimeters
of eye-relief on my OM-1. So much so, that at one point I was thinking of
approaching a machinist friend of mine and asking him to -- wait, those
of you with weak stomachs or who are pregnant should probably stop
reading this now. Just skip to the next message, OK? Right then, I was
thinking of asking my friend to machine off 2-3mm of the plastic from the
eyepiece, sacrificing the ability to use an eyecup or the varimagni. Then
it occurred that this idea was 1) stupid (in a general sense), 2) cost
prohibitive, 3) would probably allow MORE light to enter through the
eyepiece, and 4) complicated, since the eyepiece frame also houses the
galvenometer and the circuit board. (10 years of postgraduate education
allowed me to figure this out for myself.) But the urge is still there. I
wonder if there's a clever optical device or correcting lens that could
clip onto the eyepiece (or fit into an eyecup) to allow for longer eye
relief. It would keep me from even thinking about disfiguring my OM-1.
--Kelton
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