Two possible reasons I am aware of are misaligned prism, and/or misaligned diopter lenses. I remember I managed to put my thumb into the viewfinder of my MZ-S while picking it up from the bag once, and ended up with a situation quite similar to what you describe.
Jostein 2009/3/17 Matthew Montgomery <[email protected]>: > Warning, slightly obsessive post. > > I posted this over at pentaxforums.com as well but would like to see if any > of you have ever encountered something similar. > > I just got a new K20D as an upgrade for my K10D. One thing I noticed right > off as a difference, is that the focus indicator lights on the K20D are > slightly lower than on the K10D. > > By way of illustration, here is sort of what I see when it is set to the > center point. The dash and the underscore represent the indicator light. > > K10D ( - ) K20D ( _ ) > > Another data point is that, with the viewfinder firmly planted, if I move my > eye slightly toward the far left indicator light it disappears. If I am > looking straight ahead I am able to see this light. Again this is a stark > contrast to my K10D in which all the lights are bright on consistent no > matter where I look in the viewfinder. > > It seems like something is misaligned. Could it simply be the focus screen? > Visually the focus screen seems OK, lines are straight etc. Nothing seems > out of whack with the actual auto focus so I've half a mind to just disable > the superimposed indicator lights. I pretty much just use the center point > anyway. > > -- Matthew > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
