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Adjusting the diopter

Adjusting the diopter

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Adjusting the diopter

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Rich: We wanted to come back in the studio, because there's one particular option on these view finders that you really want to get the hang of, and that's the diopter. Now, it's a strange sounding word. Rob, what's a diopter? Rob: Well, without getting all optical science on you, Rich, essentially it allows you to adjust the focus of what you're viewing based on your eyesight. So, in oth, in other words if it looks soft to you even though you know for sure that the image is supposed to be in focus, and it looks in focus to everybody else. Well, that's your eyes. That's not the focus of the camera. And, so, on a lot of these view finders they have these built in diopters. And you might have already been familiar with the diopter with your DSLR. A lot of DSLR's just have a small little one. Right here on the side of the viewfinder that allows you to do the same thing. Rich: Yeah. And this is basically a way that if, you're vision isn't that bad, or you have different vision for…

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