Customer Reviews

Nikon DK-21M Magnifying Eyepiece for Nikon D200 Digital Camera

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I bought this for my D70, which suffers from low magnification compared to my old film SLR's. Fits and works well but 1.17x is not a dramatic increase in size. Good quality coated optics, as expected.

Fits other Nikons with rectangular eyepieces also, but probably only usable with digital cameras that have a diopter adjustment. Incidently, the picture on the Amazon site is the wrong part, at least as of 07/01/2006.

small opening in the eyepiece makes the use of this counterproductive, as your eye needs to actually get closer to the piece. If you wear eyeglasses, like I do, forgeddaboutit!

The magnification is small but you can definetly tell a difference. Downfall is that through your viewfinder it cuts off about 20% of the frame of what your photographing on all sides. This is minor for taking pictures of people but for landscape would be a downfall. Say you'd want a certain tree as the left borderline of the photo. Because of the eyepieces zoom that tree would be at the left part of the viewfinder but when you review the picture it would be more to the right of the edge. If you get this I recomend carrying both eyepieces around with you because they are easy to switch out.

I read this would fit the D70 and it fits like it was made for it. The D70 uses mirrors instead of a prism and I've read people saying it is like looking down a dark hallway at your image. I agreed with them until I added this magnifying eyepiece. It eliminates all of the black space around the image! The only down side is that you have to shift your view slightly to see the readouts in the viewfinder. I actually find this to be an advantage so that I compose my shots without distraction. I don't understand why Nikon doesn't ship this on the camera. It really improves the viewfinder!

Its good, see the whole viewfinder with the bottom information if you don't wear eye glasses. When I was wearing eye glasses, I need to press my eye close to see everything but when I am wearing contact, its fine. The magnification isn't that great, it slightly make me feel easier on my eye but not a lot. If you have the cash, get it, but you didn't miss much if you don't have it. It doesn't make the viewfinder seeing less 20% which doesn't make sense unless you wear big thick eye glasses. If anyone doesn't know yet, your Nikon viewfinder usually only shows about 95% of the actual scene unless you using the pro level D2X, then its nearly 100%.

First off the photo listed here on amazon is not accurate of product. I went back and forth on whether or not I liked the adapter/magnifier. Ultimately I don't use it anymore, you lose a small percentage of the view finder with the adapter on it, and considering that most dSLRs (i use d200) are 95% of the actual sensor/image area to begin with, losing another 5% is not how I want to be shooting.

This magnifier works on the Canon Rebel XT and in my opinion is probably the best usable magnification you can get in this category of devices (I originally thought of getting a straight 2.3x viewfinder magnifier, but after several posts of unusably dark view, I ditched the idea). It fits the Rebel XT pretty snugly. The magnification is perceptible but not earth shattering. The viewfinder image didn't suffer a noticable loss of light. With Rebel X*'s small viewfinder, every bit of magnification might be worth it. But it won't be enough for a precise manual focus.

Without glasses on, you can exactly see both the frame and the info bar below it. With glasses on, you can just about see the entire frame, but if you peer to see the info bar, you lose some portion of the top of the frame (image center is still there).

This also brings the eye piece a bit forward, so your nose isn't entire squished against the LCD.

Nikon users may fume at a review of a part meant for Nikon cameras used on a Canon body, but I felt the review could be useful for Canon users considering this part. Nikon has made a good part with no Canon equivalent, but very much usable on a Canon body.

I am using this on the Canon Digital Rebel XT 350D, but it also fits the XTi, 20D, 30D etc. It really makes it easier to focus by making the Rebel's small viewfinder bigger. It also sticks out away from the camera a little further than the stock one, making it easier to hold close to the face and prevent smudges on the screen.
I wish it magnified more than 15% but it works well for what it is.

I bought this magnifier for my Sony A300 after reading about it on the Sony SLR forum at dpreview. It offers a small but meaningful improvement to the smallish Sony eyepiece. I am happy with this product.

I purchased this magnifier to improve my ability to manually focus my D70 camera with older AI lenses. I would recommend it for anyone who owns a D70, D70S or D50, as they all suffer from "tunnel-view" syndrome. I also purchased a split image focus screen from a company on eBay, and the combination of these two items has greatly improved the ease of manual focus. Not as good as a F2 (or even an FM) viewfinder, but a lot better than stock.