Adjustable diopters for legacy Nikon SLRs?

Willy T

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On the 'bay and elsewhere, there are listings for China-made eyepiece diopters that can be user-adjusted from -1.5 to +3.5 for older Nikon 35mm SLRs (F2, FE, F3, et al)

They're a bit pricey - roughly 32 to 40-something USD.

Does anyone know if they're any good, if they work?

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I've never tried them, but you could probably find customer reviews on-line. I use similar eye-piece magnifiers, and they work great.

It's interesting that they only seem to offer them for a few, select cameras. You'd think it would be easy to make them for any camera. That sure would increase their market.
 
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You would think, yet all are offered either on eBay or through AliExpress.
90-something% are mainland China sellers (but for one guy in the US), and prices go from $29 and change to just under $60 for what is seemingly the same product.

*EDIT - couple of eBay customers are more-or-less happy. Gotta do more poking about.
 
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BrianShaw

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Try looking in the Leica forums. There seem to be reviews of that product, or similar.
 

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I bought a couple of these a year or so ago for use on my Fuji rangefinders (same threads as Nikon). Unfortunately I didn't get around to trying them out until well after the return window had closed. Neither one had any effect whatsoever. I have a Nikon DG-2 magnifier that actually works.
 
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