Stupid Question about 5DmII circular viewfinder?

Just received my 5DmII and was wondering why I have this circular viewfinder effect... I would prefer to see the entire frame I'm shooting. Is this a setting issue I can correct? Feel like an idiot asking this question, but I've poured over the manual and even googled the issue to no avail. Anyone have a suggestion?

what do you mean circular VF? it has the same VF as the 5D and pretty much all other canon's cameras.

what lens do you have on your camera?

Currently I've got an 85mm on the camera, but the same viewfinder effect applies regardless of the lens I'm using. It actually looks like I'm using a rifle scope... a circular forground image that moves as I do, blocking out the edges of the frame view.
I've looked at the forum, googled the "problem" and scanned through the manual repeatedly, and I'm currently on hold with tech service.

Got any idea what's going on?

Are you wearing glasses?

No idea, but that's definitely not right. My 5D II viewfinder is big and bright and rectangular. It's weird that that would appear as a circle. What happens if you look through without a lens?

Focusing screen must be seated badly....

Just took off the 85 and the image in the viewfinder is rectangular. What's causing the binocular effect? Anyone? I'm still on hold with the tech people, and that should be against the damn law...

Wonder if somehow the lens blades are closing down when attached? Just grasping at straws here, not sure why that would be visible.

Okay, I've hung up on the tech support line... there's just so much "bad jazz" I can listen to unless it's the soundtrack for porn.

When you look through your viewfinder and tilt it slightly to the side, can you see the mirror supports on either side? I'm not sure this is part of the problem, but what I'm seeing is almost an interior view of the camera through the viewfinder.

It takes beautiful pictures, but I can't see the entire frame to center my images with this viewfinder effect.

Is that a bare lens? No lens hood of any kind? Is it a Canon lens? Is the lens seated properly? Besides seeing only part of the frame, does the lens otherwise seem to function properly (autofocus, aperture stopping down when depth of field preview is pressed, et cetera)?

I just see the viewfinder display... do you see the green status icons at the bottom?

RDKirk wrote in post #7704302
Is that a bare lens? No lens hood of any kind? Is it a Canon lens? Is the lens seated properly? Besides seeing only part of the frame, does the lens otherwise seem to function properly (autofocus, aperture stopping down when depth of field preview is pressed, et cetera)?

OP says it's with all lenses

RDKirk wrote in post #7704302
Is that a bare lens? No lens hood of any kind? Is it a Canon lens? Is the lens seated properly? Besides seeing only part of the frame, does the lens otherwise seem to function properly (autofocus, aperture stopping down when depth of field preview is pressed, et cetera)?

The aperture closes when depth of field is pressed, and as far as I can tell all lens functions are working properly. This just appears as a round black hole in the center of the viewfinder, blocking off the corners and sides of the rectangular frame.

Same with all lenses I've attached.

Nortelbert wrote in post #7704303
I just see the viewfinder display... do you see the green status icons at the bottom?

The status icons are there, just like with my other Canon cameras. My only "problem" is with the viewfinder having a "scope" like effect. anyone out there shoot a rifle with a scope? Know how the circular lens moves as your eyes shift in front of the scopes eyepiece? That's the effect, exactly.

Just a long shot, probably not the case but no-one else has mentioned it.

You aren't putting 'crop body only' lenses on it are you? That would give an effect similar to the one you describe.