Canon EP-EX15

For any of you who may have a Canon EOS body (Digital Rebel, XT, 20D, 5D, whatever) and wear glasses, I suggest that you check out the Canon EP-EX15 Eyepiece Extender. I picked one up today for $14.99 from Camera Mart in Pontiac, and after putting it on my camera, all I can say is “wow”.

While the camera is great to use without glasses, one has to press the glasses a bit closer to their eye in order to see the whole viewfinder. With the EP-EX15 installed, the image size is reduced by 30% and moved out from the body by 15mm. This has the effect of both allowing one to keep the viewfinder a little further from the eye (glasses-length away) and it keeps one’s nose from pressing against the screen of the camera.

I will have to see how it works out in the long run, but for now it seems like it was definitely worth adding on to the camera. Especially for only $15.

I still would like to get the Canon Angle Finder C because I’d rather gotten in the habit of taking waist-level photos using the flip-out screen on my Coolpix 5400, but at $179.95 it’ll have to wait a while.