Film SLR's with diopter adjustment

Aside from the F4, F5, and F6 it's worth mentioning that Nikon had worked them into pretty much everything down to at least the N65(save for the FM3a) by the end of the film era. The round eyepiece cameras with built in adjustment(F4, F5, F6, F100) have the "pull out and turn" wheel, while the rectangular eyepiece cameras(N80, N75, N65, possibly a few others) have a slider next to the eyepiece. This all pretty well mirrors how the same setting is handled on current DSLRs.

The adjustable diopter viewfinders were very common in the day.

 

On some Canon cameras they were covered by the cushion, however, so many people didn't figure out they were there.

 

As an aside, I will remind everyone that a large percentage of "my camera doesn't focus properly" complaints were from people who had inadvertently twiddled the diopter adjustment.

I'd like to find a film SLR with a built in diopter adjustment

on the viewfinder. I know some of the Leica R's have it, and

the later Olympus OM's, but would like to avoid putting out

as much cash as those cameras still go for.

What about the Contax models, or any others?

 

Thanks....

 

It isn't difficult to make a diopter lens for a camera which has no adjustment.

 

The plastic lenses found in dollar store reading glasses can be cut and filed to a shape that fits your camera viewfinder window. I cut these out with a jeweler's saw; a fine toothed hacksaw blade will also work. Hold the diopter lens in place with a bit of black tape. One pair of dollar glasses can supply about six diopter lenses.

 

I use these on Leicaflexes and they work well for me.

The adjustable diopter viewfinders were very common in the day.

 

On some Canon cameras they were covered by the cushion, however, so many people didn't figure out they were there.

 

As an aside, I will remind everyone that a large percentage of "my camera doesn't focus properly" complaints were from people who had inadvertently twiddled the diopter adjustment.

 

By my account, only the EOS-1, EOS A2, EOS 7/30, Rebel Ti/300V, and T2/300X, had built-in diopter adjustments. Were there any other Canon film cameras that had it?

I used screw in diopters from bhphoto on my Nikon cameras but finally decided that removing and replacing my glasses all the time was not worth it and returned the original eyepiece to the cameras. Currently shooting a Leica M6 with the factory eyepiece. The M6 does not have enough eye relief but I am doing well with it wearing glasses anyway.

Most FED cameras had them built in , except FED 1. SP