Custom eyepiece for glasses wearers?

[mooge]

Hey Tom!

would it be possible for you to make a special eyepiece that doesn't scratch your glasses?

you could remove the old one (...or can you not?), and swap it with a thinner one with a rubber bit attached... you have all the equipment to make one, right?

makes sense? kinda? not really?

cheers!
Dragunov

 

[hans voralberg]

Lots of DIY option you know, I think there's some sort of rubber paint of something like that, search the M sub-forum

 

[Bill58]

I had to resort to a DIY eyepiece protector made from a flat rubber waterline washer for my Canon L1, but you're a Leica M user you can get this: http://www.leicagoodies.com/ (SCOOP)!

 

[Peter Klein]

DAG sells a little plastic ring that snaps onto the standard M eyepiece, so that smooth plastic rather than ridged metal makes contact with your glasses. I have one for my M-4P, and it works well. Of course, it moves your eye a tiny bit farther away from the eyepiece, so if you're already having problems seeing the 35mm (or 28mm) frame, this will make it slightly worse.

It's at the top of this page:
http://www.dagcamera.com/leica_m.htm

 

[Ben Z]

The Leica-made standard eyepiece for the M6 (M6 TTL and early M7) is rubber coated and is a perfect replacement for the metal one on any pre-M6 body except the M3 .

 

[JRG]

"The Leica-made standard eyepiece for the M6 (M6 TTL and early M7) is rubber coated and is a perfect replacement for the metal one on any pre-M6 body except the M3 ."

Interesting. Is there a ready source for buying those? How much?

I've used the DAG item and, as Peter K. said, it does move your eye just a bit further back. Worse, it may interfere with mounting a Leica eyepiece magnifier; some work, some don't apparently. Ultimately, I removed the DAG item and just used a water faucet O-ring and a drop of glue.

 

[Ben Z]

"The Leica-made standard eyepiece for the M6 (M6 TTL and early M7) is rubber coated and is a perfect replacement for the metal one on any pre-M6 body except the M3 ."

Interesting. Is there a ready source for buying those? How much?

I got mine from Leica USA. They were around $85 a few years ago. But DAG or Sherry Krauter might have some used ones.

 

[Tom A]

I have tried various ideas for scratch proofing M2 eye-pieces. The problem, as mentioned, is that all of them tend to shift the eye/glass out from the finder and makes it even more difficult to see the 35 frame-lines. One of the simplest ways is to scrounge around for a rubber O-ring (thin version) and stretch it over the eye-piece.
In the end I gave up and replace the left lens of my glasses on a fairly regular basis instead!

 

[jmcd]

I cut out a donut from a very thin section of goat skin, little more than a thickness of paper, and glued it to my eyepiece ring. After two years it and my glasses are holding up, but it is still a challenge to see the 35mm framelines.

 

[Tuolumne]

Liquid Rubber. One bottle should be enough to coat every Leica ever made, with some left over. I put it on with a toothpick.

http://www.buyoffseason.com/product_info.php?products_id=11889

/T

 

[mooge]

yeah, most solutions would push the eye/eyeglasses away from the finder, because you're adding something to the eyepiece.

couldn't you machine away the eyepiece so that it's flush with the surface, and put a thin rubber ring where it was?

 

[Tuolumne]

yeah, most solutions would push the eye/eyeglasses away from the finder, because you're adding something to the eyepiece.

couldn't you machine away the eyepiece so that it's flush with the surface, and put a thin rubber ring where it was?

The rubberized replacement that Leica sells does just that. Don't ask me why it isn't standard equipment. Leica users are nuts. Non-functional nostalgia over useful design every time.

/T