Known Problems, Viewﬁnder Options

full press to ﬁre the shutter. It also has a switch lock to keep the lens open in bulb mode without having to hold the button.

7.3 Viewﬁnder Options

Dioptric Corrective Lenses ED are available to correct vision problems. The Elan II/IIe has 19.5mm of eye relief. Normally people with glasses or contacts have no problem with the viewﬁnder of the Elan II/IIe but glasses wearers may have to move their eye around some to see all of the image or the data display at the bottom of the screen. For this and other reasons some people prefer to take their glasses off while shooting. For these people and others that have a hard time seeing the viewﬁnder image sharply Canon makes Dioptric Corrective Lenses (DC lenses) for the Elan II/IIe. The viewﬁnder has a -1 built in making the image appear about 1 meter away. The DC lenses are marked to take this into account so a 0 DC lens is actually a +1 to compensate for the built in -1. If your normal distance prescription is -4, buy the Canon -4 DC lens. But you may want to try them out before you buy.

The Eyecup Ec II is standard but the optional larger Eyecup Ed-E can also be used. The viewﬁnder attachments, Angle Finder B and Magniﬁer S can be used but you have to use the Adapter Ed to mount them to the larger than normal viewﬁnder of the Elan II/IIe.

7.4 Off Camera Shoe Cord 2

The Off Camera Shoe Cord 2 (OCSC2) is used to get an external Speedlite ﬂash mounted off the camera's hot shoe. It provides about 2 feet of easy extension and if you pull on the coiled wire you can stretch it to about 3 feet. Canon recommends against it, but you can extend this by adding two OCSC2's together, end-to-end. Check this out thoroughly before you need to make sure you don't have any impedance induced exposure errors.

8 Known Problems

8.1 Battery Compartment

Not all 2CR-5's are exactly the same dimensions. Some are just a wee bit short and this can cause problems with the Elan II/IIe. The usual problem is the camera will lock up when you take a picture and the battery indicator in the LCD will blink. (There are other problems that can also cause this same symptom however.) This can be easily remedied by putting a small piece of cardboard between the bottom of the battery and the battery door. This will press the battery farther into it compartment, insuring better contact. You can also reach into the battery compartment with a small hook and raise the battery contacts as they seem to bend down too far with use. For what it's worth, Sanyo 2CR-5 are reported to work best with the Elan II/IIe.

The battery door hinge is just a thin piece of plastic that bends when you open it. With a lot of use or abuse this can fail. Canon USA sold me one for cheap although