Jim Timpe has the best suggestion- tape the camera to your eye socket.
Brian P. Huber
>
> >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
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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