canon 7 glasses protection tricks?

[einolu]

Just wondering if any people with glasses have any good tips for using the canon 7. I used to have some paint on electrical tape, but lost it, and dont want to 'paint' the 7 anyway.

The viewfinder is cicrular, so I was thinking of DIYing something like what the new bessas have (rubber eyepiece). Any tips would be helpful,

thx

 

[jlw]

A rubber O-ring of the correct size would provide similar protection to what's on the Bessas, but it would be hard to get it attached well enough to stay on dependably. You might give it a try with contact cement, which should clean off if you want to remove it later.

Another idea: Many people don't know this, but the eyepiece of the 7 unscrews (not easily; try pressing on it with a flat rubber sheet to get enough grip.) With the eyepiece removed, you could trace around it to get a pattern, then make a stick-on protector out of a material such as cloth tape.

 

[kiev4a]

That's a problem with the FSU rangefinders, too. I ruined one pair of glasses with plastic lenses. That's on reason I don't shoot them as much as I once did. I've used o rings with pliobond but it's easy to scrape them off if the back of the camera brushes something.

 

[Jon Goodman]

You could cut a piece out of the self-adhesive foam I sell in the light seal kits. If you ever needed to remove it, you could do so with naphtha.

Jon

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I put a "little rubber foot" (like on a notebook computer) on the hi/lo selector. It provides a good stand-off for my glasses. I found it was worse than the finder eyepiece for banging glasses.

 

[airds]

'Spec protection

'Spec protection

See my message #10 - Canon eyeglass-scratchers - in the Canon RF advice request thread.

Don't know if they'll be large enough for the Canon 7 viewfinder, but are ~16mm outside diameter.

rdgs

 

[djon]

Black masking tape.

 

[einolu]

thanks airds, I might get a set off the asahi website. jlw, I tried to unscrew the viewfinder and just couldnt do it, which means that I should probably keep it that way 😛. Brian, my glasses somehow magically end right where the hi-low selector is.