I’ve got a Panasonic Lumix G2. A couple of days ago I put it to my eye to take a picture and got a shock as my eyelid slammed up against the viewfinder glass. I looked down and luckily there was the rubber ‘cup’ on the floor - I could have lost it altogether.
It’s intact apart from the two little rubber tabs on the bottom of the eyepiece which broke off for some reason and are still attached to tiny plastic pegs in the camera.
Can it be glued? If so, which is the best glue? Any alternatives? Is there a website called rubbereyepiecethingies.com?
ETA: oops the title is meant to say DSLR. Have asked a mod for an edit.
Did you poke around the Panasonic website to see if they sell parts? That’s where I’d start. You could try gluing it, but if it doesn’t work you might cause problems for the new one. I’d start by finding out how much the new one would be.
Also, a minor (well, major) nitpick. That’s a digital camera, not a DSLR. There’s no mirror in it.
My impression is that the rubber-thang is meant for comfort against your face and to block out stray light so you can see the viewfinder better, and is otherwise not critical.
I had the same problem with my previous (Canon) DSLR where I’d knocked off the rubber around the viewfinder and had issues trying to reattach it, and finally gave up as it kept falling off. And, you know what? I never missed it. Mind you, I wear glasses, which explains why I kept knocking off the rubber piece, but I tend to set the diopter and use the viewfinder sans glasses, and it all worked fine without the rubber piece.
If you can use the viewfinder comfortably without the rubber part, don’t stress about it. If it’s uncomfortable or just doesn’t work for you, contact a local camera vendor, who will probably fix it in maybe a few minutes.
:smack: Most manufacturers’ sites are so bad that I never look there first. But you are totally right, there is the part. Thank you! Problem is that’s the US/international site. Not sure what is available to me where I am.
Well I’ll be damned. It looks like, and works like one - there’s even a mechanical clunk when I take a photo - so I just assumed it was. I feel like a right idiot now.
Technically, it is a Micro 4/3rds - a shared system from Panasonic and Olympus that uses 4/3 components but does not include a mirror/pentaprism system. This makes the camera smaller, lighter and does away with the mirror movement (easier mechanically). The lenses are also smaller, but the sensor is also smaller than a full DSLR (but much bigger than a digital compact camera sensor). The camera has an EVF (electronic viewfinder).
The G2 looks pretty good, but I like Lumix cameras. Some of the similar Sony cameras have such a small body with a big lens that there is no way that they can fit comfortably in my hand.