if you forget you will drain the battery without seeing it as the illumination continues in the closed enclosure. RF style bodies eliminate much of this parallax issues - especially if the mount is made as flush with the top plate of the camera as possible. This should then result in you being able to use the dot sight to focus on subjects in the distance. It doesn't matter if the alignment is a degree or 2 off because the sight has alignment screws for shooting adjustment. First, a micro-43 camera with a hefty telephoto lens is a baby, in terms of size and weight, in comparison with an SLR camera with a bright telephoto giant.

It greatly facilitates locating the target with a long telephoto lens, and in combination with subject recognition of the OM-1, the dot placement can be off a little and the camera will still pick up the target. All content, design, and layout are Copyright © 1998–2024 Digital Photography Review All Rights Reserved. turn on the AF confirmation beep and 'listen' for it before pressing shutter while tracking the subject with the Dot sight.Importantly, t here is no play in the shoe and I have not needed to recalibrate except for distance. Excellent – The equipment should be close to being ‘Like New’ but there may be some small cosmetic blemishes that lower its grade. Will usually dispatch within same working day if paid before 13:30 GMT (excludes weekends and holidays).

Based on the sales pitch, this tool is totally camera agnostic and can be used with anything with a cold shoe. An alternative is to calibrate the sight against a target at infinity (or at a high distance), measure the distance between lens axis and sight, which is about 90 mm with the EE-1 on-camera (i. Except for the reticle, there is nothing else between eye and subject, so a dot-sight only provides a 1:1 magnification.It is also dust and splash proof, meaning I was able to use it in light rain without any fear of damaging it. I make/sell a hotshoe sight rail that allows you to use any red dot sight of your choosing; and there are others as well. This was much easier because only the exposed frame on the 'viewfinder' had to be superimposed over the scene. This EE-1 accessory assists with framing images when photographing distant subjects, with adjustable brightness and positioning. This mount makes camera handling more comfortable, with the elbows resting against the rib cage, one hand gripping the camera and the other under the lens, and the back of the camera against the face in the usual long-lens handling posture.