Eyepiece: Am I crazy or does anyone miss the eyepiece viewfinder?
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I agree absolutely!!! I don't see how a camera can get such a high rating without one. Are people just using it inside or after dark? No eyepiece almost completely negates its usefulness for outdoor activities.
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Yes, it comes with a viewfinder, quite a nice one, actually. The whole set up was good value, for the money.
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Hi Kenneth, I am so sorry, but I don't know. Perhaps it might be good to enter your camera model in a search bar followed by eyepiece extender. I apologize if my response is very basic, but I'm hoping it might help.
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Absolutely. This is how I use it although with different primes - 2.0 and 1.2. Regardless, you'll find yourself seeing through a much nicer viewfinder which I find useful even if I'm auto focusing or not. Here's how I see it: this focusing screen should have come standard with my body. It's that good.
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Yes. The viewfinder is great when you are taking pix in very bright sunllight conditions and the display gets "washed out" and slmost impossible to see.
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My wife has the camera now but I believe it does NOT have a regular viewfinder, only an LCD through the lens.
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Sorry Kevin, i am the wrong person. i bought this telescope for my son and he couldn't use it and i am stock now. I bought it cuz i thought it would be just easy. but i was wrong.
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There is no eye viewfinder, you need to compose on the screen on the back of the camera body. Other than this limitation, the camera is brilliant.
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I does have a viewfinder, it's small but useful for situations you describe. The LCD screen is very good also, about 1 million pixels vs 250 to 400 thousand for most point & Shoot cameras. The shutter to picture time (or Delay) is excellent, with a good UHS Class1 card, it's as quick as you can get w/o going to a full size DSLR.
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It doesn't come with a viewfinder, no - but there are two available optical viewfinder from Ricoh for it, as well a few other aftermarket viewfinders that will work well to varying degrees.Model GV-1 is the most popular.
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Hello Phileein,Thanks for the input, I ordered the 2 lines kit. I have trouble looking through viewfinders thus my need for live view.I am awaiting my new camera and will do a review after I get itThanks again
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I have the exactly same problem. Don't know where to buy the correct eyepiece.
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When you pull the eye viewfinder, you have a small wheel on the left side. Just spin it until it looks crisp. Same method as binoculars.
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There is a wheel near the viewfinder with - and + signs. Turn that in either direction to focus the viewfinder while looking in it. :-)
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YES! If you look at a rear photo of camera you will notice a eyelevel viewfinder. It is not of the opitical type , but like a video camera (a very high pixel image).
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Thanks EvanThat does make sense.I have also since found out this item is discontinued by Celestron and replaced by the avx mount. May hunt to buy one of those instead but imagine same applies.
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I wouldn't be able to tell you what might be missing without actually seeing the thing. Other than that, compare the telescope with the user's manual. If you don't have the user's manual, go to the library and get a book on basic telescope parts and operation. You might also learn a little about what kind of eyepieces would be suitable to get started.