harryo Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 I've been having problems calibrating the eye control focus on my EOS 3 when wearing glasses. Seems to work just fine without glasses. My glasses have an anti-reflection coating on them. Is there anyone else out there who has glasses with anti-reflective coating that has successfully calibrated ecf? thanks harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppyDigs Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 I doubt it. As you probably know, the problem is the anti-reflection coating does its job too well and reflects IR from the emitters while calibrating. In other words, it can't track your eye movements. You might consider a diopter instead. I use a -3 diopter and calibration works perfectly on my EOS 3. Sometimes the light’s all shining on me. Other times I can barely see. - Robert Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve coburn Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 I've managed to calibrate the ECF on my Eos 50 with an anti-reflective coating on my glasses, but my camera only uses three focus points, not the forty five which yours has. I've also found that the ECF works fine with a fast lens (50mm f1.4) but is really erratic with my cheapo zooms (F4 and slower) unless it is a very bright day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_jones12 Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 I use my EOS3 with glasses, and magnetic clip-on sunglasses sometimes. I don't know if they have a reflective coating (I'm guessing they don't, but they are shiny), but I can ECF through the sunglasses pretty well. I've got the EC-D eyecup, it helped a bit with glasses. only annoyance is moving it for vertical/horozontal, but I can do that with my right thumb. has to come off to open the film door. small price to pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian_e Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 My ECF is fine as well. No antireflective coating, but I've used it with my clip-on sunglasses over my prescription glasses w/no probs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_chong1 Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 ECF works fine for me on my Elan7E and my anti-reflective prescription glasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I have ocassional problems with my self darkening glasses and my 5 in bright sunlight - I'm not sure why this should be as I wouldn't think the pigment would stop the beam. If I take off my specs the problem goes away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesse_nikkel Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 My glasses are anti-reflective coated, and I have no real problems with my ECF on my EOS 3. Once in a while I have trouble getting it to focus on the side points, but nothing major. I calibrated a few times, and then sat in my living room and focused away for awhile (I heard that the ECF has a program that "learns" your eye, and gets better with time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_berthe Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 I wear a very strong eyeglass prescription on "high index" Nikon glass. ECF has always been "bang on" with my wife's Elan 7E. It was not consistant enough to use it on my EOS3 until I had the firmware upgraded. Since then, it is a lot more reliable, however not as "bang on" as the Elan 7E. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_dunn2 Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 <p>My Elan 7e has no problem with my naked eyes. With my old glasses (which didn't have an anti-reflective coating), I couldn't get it to calibrate reliably with either eye. Haven't tried it with my new glasses (with anti-reflective coating), as I prefer to shoot without glasses anyway.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_torek Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 Works for me, with -3.75 diopter, polycarbonate, antireflective-coated glasses. Given everything I have seen read and heard, glasses do decrease the chances that the eye-control will work for you, but the biggest factor appears to be one's own personal eyeball. :-) Note, I also use Eyecup ED-E (the Big Honking Eyecup). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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