Help Canon Rebel 2000

[Tobiko]

I know this is a digital forum, but it was the only canon one i could find. I have a canon rebel 2000. It seems that the viewfinder is out of focus though the images that it takes are in focus, the viewfinder is out. It is my brother's camera who has eye problems so i think he changed the view finder, to help him. The thing is i can't find the adjuster for the camera. I have tried to look for it but it is not there. On my digital rebel it is easy to find next to the view finder, but not in this one.

Anyone have any help
Tobiko

[defense_team]

Dioptric adjustment lens E. The Rebel 2000 lacks a built-in dioptric adjustment feature to accommodate people who require glasses but don’t like wearing glasses when they look through viewfinders. The solution is either to grit your teeth and wear glasses when you use the camera or attach a diopter to the camera - basically a rectangular magnifying glass that fits around the viewfinder bracket. Canon sell 10 different types of diopters and each requires the Rubber Frame Eb to fit.

[Tobiko]

Thats not the case, i have fine eye sight maybe -1 off. But it is fine when i wear my glasses. I don't care about wearing my glasses. The thing is, it is as if there is a diptomitor on there but there is not. It is set for someone with really bad eye sight, i don't see how this is possible if it doesn't come with a built in one.

[tim]

DT will be correct. Take the piece of glass out and see how it looks. Wear your glasses.

[Jon]

Canon has designed all of their SLR viewfinders that I'm aware of to be at an apparent 1 meter distance (1 diopter correction built-in to the finder optics) when no diopter correction has been applied. If you can't get a crisp image on your brother's camera, either he has attached a diopter correction lens via the eye cup, there's a diopter adjustment dial on the viewfinder (behind the eye cup), your eyes are not as good as you thought, or the camera took a hit to the pentaprism area, throwing the viewfinder optics out of whack. It's remotely possible he had an optometrist or camera repairman install a dioptric correction lens internally, but that would be so much overkill that I really doubt that's the problem.

[Tobiko]

i think you are right about the pentaprism area hit. I am not sure how it happened. There is no way there is an installed dioptric lens. I told him about it a few days ago and he told me he didn't even know what a diptric lens was. Also thre is no dial on this one, i have one on my D rebel though. Do you know how much it costs to fix the pentaprism problem? It is only a $150 dollar camera so, if it cost way to much i might just buy a new one.

[Jon]

If it got hit hard enough to throw the viewfinder optics off, there may be other damage as well. I wouldn't expect the repair to be less than about $75. If the viewfinder's uniformly out of focus, you might just try putting a dioptric correction lens on to compensate, but that assumes that (1) it's uniform and (2) it's within the range of available corrective lenses. Do parts of the screen look less fuzzy than others?