I can't speak for the Canon P, but I can tell you for a fact that the eyepiece on my Zorki 4 scratched my eyeglasses, even though my glasses were supposed to have an anti-scratch coating. It scratched them up pretty bad too. The Zorki isn't damaged either.In decades of shooting both SLR and RF cameras I've never seen scratches on glasses that appeared to be from camera eyepieces. Smooth plastic or metal shouldn't scratch, but grit from any source certainly can.
I 2nd what Steve posted.If you're worried, how about just cutting some thin strips of cellophane tape and putting them on the eyepiece frame?
That said, my Canon P hasn't scratched my polycarbonate eyeglass lenses, but polycarbonate is harder than the cheaper stuff...
I, on the other hand, have many pair of glasses with fine scratches right where the viewfinders hits.In decades of shooting both SLR and RF cameras I've never seen scratches on glasses that appeared to be from camera eyepieces. Smooth plastic or metal shouldn't scratch, but grit from any source certainly can.
In decades of shooting both SLR and RF cameras I've never seen scratches on glasses that appeared to be from camera eyepieces. Smooth plastic or metal shouldn't scratch, but grit from any source certainly can.
My wife stopped using contact lenses and switched to glasses some years ago. She got coated lenses. At the end of about 4 years she noticed that although the surface of the plastic lenses were still in reasonable condition, the coating had deteriorated to the point of FORCING the purchase of new lenses (even if the Rx had not changed). She only had previously touched the surfaces to clean them as necessary of accumulated gunk (no contact with viewfinder eyepieces) yet the coaintins eroded ...Planned obsolescence. Her replacement plastic lens glasses got no extra-cost coatings after that experience.View attachment 192731 wiltw got me thinking. Why not look under a microscope? Sure enough there is some merit to Jim Jones’ claim. And some to mine as well.
What got trashed by cameras... the anti-reflection coating. Glass is largely untouched to the naked eye.
There are a few fine scratches and pits when my newest uncounted glass glasses are examined under the microscope, nothing like the carnage in this. Coated glass....
I read that the Canon P has a plastic eyepiece instead of the round metal eyepiece on a Canon 7. I understand that plastic will be easier on my eyeglass lenses than metal but can I expect the plastic eyepiece to protect them? Or will the plastic eyepiece just mean less scratching?
My Canon-p has stripped the anti-glare coating off of my glasses!I read that the Canon P has a plastic eyepiece instead of the round metal eyepiece on a Canon 7. I understand that plastic will be easier on my eyeglass lenses than metal but can I expect the plastic eyepiece to protect them? Or will the plastic eyepiece just mean less scratching?
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