HELP please

January 22nd, 2011
Hi All,

Having problems with my focusing on my canon 500d. I have used it all day today, and all has been fine. Got it out tonight to have a play about, and when i look through the lens and the camera focuses (AF), it looks blurry. I take the photo and it is fine???

Help, I have washed my eyes, thinking maybe it was just my eyesight, cleaned the viewfinder.

It is happening with all my lenses :( it was working fine earlier, and I took it out the bag from last time I used it and used it again (without changing lens), so don't think the body has got dirty on the inside, surely i would have noticed if i had touched the sensor or anything :(

I have a shoot tomorrow :( boo hoo
January 22nd, 2011
can you post a 'blur' photo on flikr and a link... so we can see the trouble...
January 22nd, 2011
its okay peeps, it is my eye!!!! lol. Just looked through with the other eye and its fine! crikey i must be tired!
January 22nd, 2011
oh when you look through it... my bad... did you try the little wheel on the viewfinder... tune it a bit... it is for correction so you can use the view finder without glasses...
January 22nd, 2011
Sounds like you need to check the dioptric dial, this is a small dial just to the right of the viewfinder, turn it until the view finder is clear.
January 22nd, 2011
@mrangryuk like bob said


when you shoot do you keep both eyes open? If you close on... it work VERY hard and can dry out... as it will not blink as much...
January 22nd, 2011
Glad you figured it out. I thought it might be the diopter. When I first got my SLR camera, I took it back to the store because it wouldn't focus....*sigh* I felt like an idiot when the clerk showed me the adjuster. Must have bumped it somehow. Now I see that all my cameras have this adjuster.
January 23rd, 2011
thank you , it was the dipoter, i just checked again and my eye was still the same, so adjusted that and it worked! that will teach me for letting my son pick my camera up, saved me an embarrassing moment in jessops or specsavers lol

@kathyd @icywarm @mrangryuk THANK YOU XXX
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