Cannon EOS 5000 viewfinder

[suboffender]

Hello, everyone.

I've recently bought a second hand Cannon EOS 5000 35mm film SLR body. When i look through the viewfinder without a lens attached to the camera, everything is Blurry. Is this normal? Does it need a lens attached to the camera for the viewfinder to function properly? Don't want to buy a lens for it, only to find that the camera is broken.

Thank you in advance for your help

[Dave6223]

Hiya,

This seems perfectly normal. If the shutter seems to fire normally, i.e. the mirror flips up and the shutter opens for approximately the correct time, and then the mirror drops down again then you need to attach a lens. Do you know of a camera shop locally that might have second hand equipment for sale? Maybe you could attach a lens there to try it before buying, and even the "eye" of the assistant might reassure you all seems ok. Good luck.

Dave

[suboffender]

Thanks for your quick reply Dave.

The shutter does appear to fire normally so I'm guessing that all will be fine once i fit a lens. Is it likely that the blurriness is because the camera obviously isn't designed to operate without a lens fitted, so that when a lens is fitted, this then corrects the optics?

Do camera shops still sell the older Cannon EOS 'EF' mount lenses? As I'm aware the camera is quite an old model.

[Dave6223]

Withot a lens, you would see nothing but light coming throught the focussing screen, usually just an even bright white light across the view finder. EF mount lenses should be around, there were enough slr's sold in the world to almost guarantee it.

Take a look on ebay, thats hould give you some idea of whats around and how much.

Dave

[Jenn_B]

Do camera shops still sell the older Cannon EOS 'EF' mount lenses? As I'm aware the camera is quite an old model.

Yes, it's the same lens mount as digital EOS cameras use. Just don't use the EF-S lenses, they'll break it.