{"id":2879,"date":"2014-06-14T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-06-14T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T23:58:09","slug":"how-to-making-a-fake-diopter-adjustment-for-an-lcd-viewfinder-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2014\/06\/14\/how-to-making-a-fake-diopter-adjustment-for-an-lcd-viewfinder-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"How-to: Make a fake diopter adjustment for an LCD Viewfinder Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a couple of Nikon 1 J1 and J2 cameras that I bought used\/refurbished for 3D shooting. I originally thought\u00a0I would use these cameras for only\u00a03D – but I find I really like these cameras for many reasons – 1″ sensor, very compact, excellent image quality, very sharp lenses, and very good low light capability. And with some close up filters, they’ve become one of my “go to” cameras for close up\/macro photography.<\/p>\n

But as you know, cameras with only an LCD viewfinder (no electronic eye viewfinder) can be tough to use in bright sun. They are a hassle for those of us that need to wear reading glasses (and only reading glasses) for close in viewing since we have to find and put on our reading glasses every time we take photos.<\/p>\n

To solve this, I bought an LCD viewfinder hood. Unfortunately, none of these have diopter adjustments to correct for eye variations among users. Dumb omission! Without a diopter adjustment, I cannot get a clean focus.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>I\u00a0solved\u00a0this by busting a lens out of a retail store cheap reading glasses set and just taping it in front of the existing lens. Crude – but it actually works! Now \u00a0I can see the LCD panel in focus without my reading glasses – even in bright light \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I used\u00a0gaffer’s tape to mount the lens as nothing else would stick to the rubber eyepiece. I thought this idea might be helpful to others.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have a couple of Nikon 1 J1 and J2 cameras that I bought used\/refurbished for 3D shooting. I originally thought\u00a0I would use these cameras for only\u00a03D – but I find I really like these cameras for many reasons – 1″ sensor, very compact, excellent image quality, very sharp lenses, and very good low light … Continue reading How-to: Make a fake diopter adjustment for an LCD Viewfinder Hood<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-still-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}