Bro, I think this is the first time I'm commenting on anything on YT. Your vid just saved me from sending this MINT 67 I just got from Japan back to the seller!! I'm so freakin happy now hahaha THANK YOU.
Thank you verrrrrry much, you just saved me from contemplating shelving, selling or suicide by consumption of nutella spread till doth take me. Took off the diopter (I wear glasses) which was a neutral diopter but nonetheless affected my percpetion. All is back to normal, sheep in the fold and me happy with my camera. Thank you very much !!!
hell yeah!!!!!!!! that's E.X.A.C.T.L.Y. what the efff was going on and thx a ton for figuring it out and letting us (me especially) know! serious. i was effing pissed that i just invested $$$$$ on a huge headache. no cap, no headache! u rock. thx bro. Pete Hopkins
You helped me man !! I was about to send mine back ! The good thing was that it was soooo blurry that there was no doubt that there was sth wrong with it
My new Pentax 67 arrived today from eBay Japan. Couldn't find focus. Turned out to be the exact issue you're videoing about. I had already figured it out before watching this. Relief. Now to try and find the original eyepiece somewhere.
The same class of Nikon eyepiece fit the FM/FE/FA series, the 8008 series, and probably other bodies which have a round eyepiece. Other makers use Nikon as well. .Fuji does not supply diopter eyepieces for their cameras, but refers customers to buy the Nikon eyepiece. I do not know, but from this I assume that he's talking about the same thing. The Nikon items are still pretty common on ebay, as they were numerous back in the day and they also fit some of the digital bodies. I wear glasses, but I went a different way. I got "0" diopter eyepieces for my cameras, which cancel the natural off-zero diopter of the basic finder system. That allows my regular eyeglasses to focus properly for my lousy eyes. (Pentax sold a limited range of diopter eyepieces for the 67 prism finders. but they are hard to find now and overpriced if you do find one.)
I own a p67ii, the eyepiece ring dropped off somewhere and was lost. It does not happen on the previous versions as much as on the mark ii version. There are a lot of p67iis on the market missing the eyepiece. To be honest, this little ring is the rarest part to find and replace in the world. Not a single one can be found on ebay. Thank god I finally found one from Japan and paid $70 dollars for it. I now wanna glue this thing on my camera to make sure that it will never fall off again.
Hmm. Why do you think it falls off so easily? The one on the original 67 screws right in and shouldn't fall out. I would love to see your Pentax 67 if its on instagram. Follow me so I can check your work out? @retrograding
@@MikMilman The AE finder on the 67ii has built in diopter adjustment. Pentax sold additional screw-in diopter eyepieces for folks requiring an adjustment beyond the range of the internal optics. The old style diopter eyepiece of appropriate strength can be use as an alternative to the internal adjustment.The eyepiece is threaded the same as for the other and earlier prism finders, to allow the use of an accessory magnifier which threads in replacement of the eyepiece. Most likely reason an eyepiece falls out too easily would be that its threads got partly stripped somewhere along the way. If so, we'll hope that the stripping was on the eyepiece rather than the finder body.
@@MikMilman seriously man, went through exactly what you described with my own Pentax. I was looking up new focusing screens just prior to watching your video! It was a whole new world once I took the diopter off, thank you!
Hi! So do I need diopter when I wear glasses when shooting? Sorry for dumb question but my pictures are almost always blurry even with f5.6I have mamiya 645 with sekor 80 f1.9. I'm frustrated
You could try shooting at an even higher aperture to test to see if something is wrong or you could have a friend shoot with it to see if they get different results. You do not need a diopter when wearing your glasses, since your glasses are already doing the correction for you. A diopter is used so that you do not have to wear your glasses when shooting and you can bring the view finder closer to your eye. The problem with my Pentax 67 is that a previous owner had installed a diopter without me realizing it. I assumed it had the stock part there. Hope this helps!
Most likely, yes. I don't spend much time on any one camera to look into it. I have plenty to shoot with. I'm wondering why this video is getting so much attention lately... did a large channel just review the 67 or something?
Not necessarily. Camera finder systems commonly come with a built in diopter bias, while most users assume that they are neutral. For example, my several Nikon bodies over the years had a bias which I corrected by installing a "0" diopter Nikon eyepiece, This allowed me to focus easily while wearing my glasses. Same for my Fuji GS645 camera. I did this because being older, I found that my eyesight was changing faster than when I was younger, so this allows me to stay current without having to track down several new eyepieces every couple of years. The "0" diopter eyepieces were actually harder to find that the "-2" ones I'd install if I didn't wear my glasses normally.
Fm3a, f3hp is not fit, its bigger in diameter. But you can certainly grind the glass so the diameter match the pentax’s. You can twist the eye piece so you can swap only the optic inside.
With the admission that I have not pulled a diopter eyepiece out of one of my Nikon bodies to test in a 67 or 67ii, I'll say that you would be safe to try the round Nikon diopter eyepieces used in the while series of FM/FE bodies (not the FM3a apparently), as well as a variety of "prosumer" Nikon AF bodies like the 8008/8008s models. This style of eyepiece was almost universal with Nikon for several decades on models below the F2/F3/F4 line.
