Telescope Reviews: Canon 15x50 IS homemade eyecups

Hi there

I would like to share my recent home made experience regarding ‘’how to improve the eye socket comfort when using a Canon Is 15x50’s’’…well, this is of course a single solution that I found to myself since I felt their original eyecups ‘’very big and hard’’ really ‘’quite uncomfortable’’ when fully extended (it’s necessary to press them against my face to get more or less the correct eye-relief point)…with them rolled down I got some bad ambient light and I lost frequently the exactly ‘’eye-relief’’ point experiencing some blackouts.
I don’t wear glasses while watching and I don’t own a pair of anti-fog eyepiece so for me this homemade solution is perfect but will not be so useful to who wear glasses or the anti-fog eyepieces…
I just took a (spare) pair of Nikon rubber eyecups (for the 8x30 E model – they are available with B&H) and after cutting their ‘’the down place where they incase on the binocular eyepiece’’ I glued them on the original Canon eyecups (using a light glue very easy to remove and clean with no one kind of damage on rubber) and I got a real very nice pair of comfortable eyecup.
The original eyecups are 47mm in diameter and these are just 36mm (a big difference) - their height (after cutting) is the same as found in the original Canon so with them there I can now see the whole ‘’field stop’’ very easy and just on the right eye-relief point…they touch my face very friendly (the Nikon eyecups are also way soft) and don’t bother my nose since they don’t touch it, I have no blackouts or shades there and of course no one annoying ambient light too.
I am posting here some pictures of my ‘’homemade’’ improvement…sorry by the bad quality but they were taken using my mobile phone.

Cheers Pedro

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