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Originally Posted by lxlim
Eye relief, as in tired eyes? No, as I tested it on three separate occassions with different sales people but with the same conclusions. We figured that the magnifier is so simple a device it can't be Leica making a mistake but us not being able to figure it out. 
Several distances: Thats a thought. 1 - 2 meters seems to be more OOF than 3 - 5 meters but I did not try further than that. I will try that next time round. |
No no Alex, it's not that.
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I believe it's rather a matter of eye relief and not a simple adjustment of diopters which, you can test any time...
I will try giving you an example of my personal experience when trying to watch the surroundings right after I bought my brand new Canon 18IS binoculars: a 18x mag. bino and also very cool. Well when I first bought them and tried them out I said: wtf is that? It took me a lot of time to figure out how to use them. It is not an easy think to some people, and you need some training to do before getting fully aquatinted. It has to do with how close or how far you look them through that viewfinder. Well, for my case and my binos it turned out that whenever I was using those rubber eyecups in front of the viewfinders, the experience was 3x worst than with the eyecups folded in. Binos are more difficult since you do need to adjust 2 viewfinders, but once you get the hung of it its really easy.
For your case now, if you have things like glasses, eyecups and more, that in general acts as a spacer for your eye is basically what creates half of the problem.
The rest of it is some exercise to learn to view thru that eyepiece. Start by first trying to relax, then look through as if you almost stick your eye in the glass. It should work.
I guess that because you had 3 others that couldn't see as well, you must have something not done right