Adjustable diopters for legacy Nikon SLRs?

[Willy T]

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?

TIA

 

[xkaes]

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.

 

[Willy T]

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.

 

[BrianShaw]

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

 

[Willy T]

Will do; thank you, sir.

 

[drg3rd]

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.

 

[Willy T]

Good to know! Thanks for your heads-up