Easy....
A third party vendor produced it for use on Olympus cameras and somebody
else that lost the original eyecup put on one from Canon... so... no big
deal....
Victor Falkteg
----- Original Message -----
From: Rand E. <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Alternatives to a Varimagni
> Keith, Hans, et all,
> I have a straight tube type magnifier with dioptic adjustment and
> magnifies only the central area and not inverted. It is a flip-up type
> and is very well designed to clear the mounted flash shoe and lay flat
> on top when flipped up. It has a built in grove for an eye cup and the
> rubber eye cup installed.
> What I find most interesting is that imprinted on the tube next to the
> flip-up mechanism is imprinted the word Olympus on the top and 180
> degrees out on the bottom, Japan. Normal for third party accessory
> right ?
> Molded into the rubber eyecup is the only other words "Canon, Japan"
> VERY INTERESTING !
>
> Rand E.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Keith (R.K.) Berry" wrote:
> >
> > Hans van Veluwen wrote:
> > >Did Pentax or Fujica ever make non-angled finder magnifiers? In many
cases
> > where
> > >I use the Varimagnifinder with macro or super tele I only need the
> > >magnification, and feel the right angled finder as a handicap. I
believe
> > Hama
> > >once made them, but no more... :-(
> > >
> > As I remember it, the Pentax S1A/SV/Spotmatic right angle finder had no
> > magnifier but a non-reversed image and they made a separate focus
> > magnifier - a short straight tube that fitted the eyecup slots - and
perhaps
> > with a bit of filing both of them could be fitted to an OM eyepiece
(but,
> > unlike the Varimagni, not at the same time). I don't know anything about
any
> > Pentax M or K versions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
> > keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
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