Olympus EE-1 Red Dot Sight with Crosshair Reticle for Telephoto Lenses, Dustproof and Splashproof

2023-01-27T04:07:00

The EE-1 is mostly plastic. It has up-down and left-right thumbwheels so no tool is needed for calibration. It fits in the hot shoe of my OM-1 perfectly, no movement at all. It is cleverly designed to pop up into position with the push of a button so no cover is needed. I use it with my OM-1 and 300mm lens plus 1.4 TC (840mm equivalent). It works very well, mainly because the OM-1 has subject recognition capabilities and puts the camera's focus point on the target so it is less likely to miss the intended target than without subject recognition. It may not be as useful on cameras without subject recognition and a sloppier fit in the hot shoe.

DAVID D.

2021-10-15T15:42:03

Nice product and the idea seems good, however, it never reall works for me. I sold it off on ebay!

Tue D.

2020-08-10T08:56:39

Excellent product! Dot position needs to be calibrated for approximate subject distance, due to parallax. Super easy on a tripod: put a small subject in the center of the frame then look thru the sight and move the dot up/dn and sideways until it’s on the subject. Two wheels move the dot smoothly and accurately. Saves often-futile searching for a subject thru a very long lens.

DIANE M.

2019-12-02T11:57:32

This is an aiming devise and the mounting is so sloppy that it rotates about 5° at the slightest touch or bump to the camera. Very poor design. It has a big round nut above the shoe mount intended to press against the top of the mounting shoe on the camera but it can not be tightened enough to make any difference and the foot of the device itself is much narrower than the inside width of the flash mount on the camera. If it could be mounted securely it would be OK but a sight that freely rotates relative to the camera is useless. I tried it on an ?6500 so fitting it to any Sony camera is likely to get the same result.

ALLEN G.

2019-04-05T11:50:19

works as anticipated, it lets me see the big picture while the camera does the focusing. Neets to be reset when there is a big difference in distance between shots.

ALLEN A.

2018-12-11T08:14:59

It needs a little getting used to but This thing works.

Nelson B.

2017-08-10T09:47:26

Incredible for shooting both action sports and Birds In Flight. Highly recommend.

WILLIAM G.

2017-07-29T20:00:00

With Dot Sight technology my photography is enhanced substantially because it uses pinpoint accuracy on the subject before a photograph is taken so that the subject field is in range and on target. This is very important when taking photogtaphs of distant objects such as flying jets , fast cars, aircraft, distant buildings etc. Dot sight technology increases the photographic accuracy and quality of the image.

Samuel

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2017-07-06T10:53:06

ideal for shooting birds in flight or other wildlife.

DAVID L.

2017-04-23T13:46:14

When shooting fast moving objects like birds, they can disappear in a flash from your EVF or LCD, requiring you to take the camera away from your eye to re-aim. By the time you get re-aimed, the subject is long gone. This gadget lets you hold the camera out and away from your eyes and allows your peripheral view to keep it aimed properly. You will get a much higher % of keepers using this. I knocked off one star because I think it's a bit overpriced. But it does work well.

LOREN L.

2017-03-21T20:00:00

I have a SP 100 dot sight. I took a pic of the moon from a moving cruise departing from Italy... I wish you could see it! This is a very nice addition to your equipment.

Hilda

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2016-09-15T20:00:00

Trying to track a bird in flight and keep it in the frame when zoomed out to 300mm is extremely difficult, but with the EE-1 Dot Sight it is much easier to do so and I can keep both eyes to boot. As mentioned in other reviews, it is easy to set up and center the dot using two thumb wheels. ( One for up & down and one for right to left.) I also appreciate the thumb wheel that allows you to tighten it in the hot shoe. It is a valuable feature. I once lost a very expensive GPS logger because a slight bump knocked it out of the hot shoe. Although the outside is made of plastic, the side struts and the base they are connected to inside the unit are metal. It actually has a pretty solid feel to it, especially when closed. Just be sure to close it down before putting it in your camera bag or pocket. The only reason I didn't rate it five stars is that if I try to use it while wearing glasses, sometime the lens of my glasses rub against the top portion of the case and knock the dot off center. Same if you wear a hat.

Tucson J.

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2016-08-10T09:34:24

I tried the EE-1 as directed and it worked very well, Howver the second time attempted to use it was non-functional. It had been gently used, which is how I treat new equipment when I first get it, so I have no idea how it broke. I have contacted Olympus via email about the problem, but have so far received no response. I think the unit must have been defective to have broken after such a short time, but until I can get an answer, I have to give it a low rating.

DON A.

2016-07-19T08:53:31

Calibrated the sight against the viewfinder using a single point of focus, a 100-400mm lens on a tripod, and it seems to be pretty accurate. The red dot indicates were the focus point is.

William S.

2016-05-17T10:55:19

I photograph a lot of birds using an 4/3 400 mm lens to find a small bird can be very trying, with the dot sight put me right on target. Hope to use it on larger birds in flight. You have to reset it if you take off the camera.

ROBERT S.

2016-05-13T08:37:49

This sight makes it easy to locate the bird. With some practice you can refine your tracking of the bird to achieve final framing in-camera.

Bengt N.

2016-05-06T11:46:58

This sight it particularly useful on mirrorless and other slow focus cameras. I use an E-M1 with a 300 mm Zuiko PRO lens and this sight for fast flying birds. Once you learn how to use it you can expect BIF keepers not attainable any other way. To William K. I would like to say: I also struggled at first. Using my old DSLR technique did not work at all. If you get what you want from your 600 mm DSLR stick with it. However, if you have problems finding the bird in the viewfinder, or if you want to use a lighter setup like a slow focus OMD E-M1 with a 300 mm lens this sight is a must. Because of the wide view looking through this sight compared to the cropped view through a long lens, do not expect to produce final framing in the camera. Expect to do some post process cropping.

Bengt N.

2016-04-07T20:00:00

It is a good concept, an excellent design. Easy to use and calibrate. However, it could had been made of aluminum or other kind of metal for it's price. The reason I graded this DOT Sight for three stars is just too expensive and made of plastic. Pairing with my EM-1 and a 40-150 mm F 2.8 Pro (mostly metals) could had been perfect if this EE-1 is not made of PLASTIC.

Noel

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2016-04-02T20:00:00

The red dot concept is a well proven technique using ONLY ONE POINT. The optical design is ingenious, always keeping the red dot on the line between your eye and the target. This eliminates the need for precise positioning of the eye. If you move your head and eye enough for the red dot to disappear you are still on target as long as you have not moved the camera.

Bengt

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2015-10-03T20:00:00

I bought the Electronic Dot Site to use with my Olympus Stylus 1s, which is among the finest cameras I've ever used. When the !s is set for around 300mm, as with nearly every camera, neither the LCD or the EVF is fast enough to track moving birds, running animals, or even fast moving, zigzagging racing sailboats as they move across the starting line. I've used my EE-1 for all of these purposes, both on my Stylus 1s and one of the best selling pro cameras from another manufacturer. It's easy to use and equally equally effective in bright sunlight when all LCD are washed out and difficult to use; or doing street shooting a night by the light of a street light about a block away. I wouldn't be without the EE-1, regardless of the cameras I happen to buy in the future.

Steven

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2015-09-22T20:00:00

I gave this product 5 stars because it does what its supposed to do. It helped me track airplanes and birds. It made it easier to do with the OMD EM-5 and the 14-150 lens because I could center the objects or place them where I wanted them in the composition without holding the eyepiece to my face. I like that. I could track them easier because it magnifies the image. It might result in less cropping. Can you use the LCD for this? Yes, but not with bright light at your back washing it out. Its harder to do with the LCD or the EVF with a distant object because they do not magnify the object, but the EE-1 does. Magnification makes it easier. I think I like this device. Have to gain experience with it. Will try it for photographing auto racing. A self contained, self powered device that does not need to communicate with the camera, it seems like it will work with any camera, even a film camera. May interfere with your Cap/Hat. Its a little bulky.

harvey

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2015-09-19T20:00:00

This sight is one among many others available, mainly for guns, which exploit a sound and well established principle. A small light emitting diode is reflected from the surface of a partially silvered curved mirror - actually, one side of a glass lens. This has the effect of superimposing a red dot on the scene viewed through the lens. As the diode is placed at the focal point of the curved lens surface, the red dot appears to your eye to be at infinity. Although the dot appears to move about in the lens when you move your head, it actually remains centred over the image of the distant object which you originally aimed at. Thus it is the perfect wide-angle sight and does not require you to squint across and line up with two elements of a conventional rifle sight. If you can see the red dot, then you know instantly where your camera is pointing. Some intitial adjustment is required to synchronise the position of the dot with the image seen by the camera lens but, once this is done, no further adjustments are required. There is a small parallax error which is equal to the distance between the centre of the sight and the axis of the camera lens, just a few inches and this remains constant no matter how near or far the object is. So please do not be put off by ignorant statements by people who do not know what they are talking about.

John

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2015-08-30T21:00:00

I use this in the Florida Everglades when photographing birds in flight but am not to happy with the results. It is very easy to sue but difficult to sight correctly and some of my images are not centered, and no matter how hard I try it just doesn't come out right, but am not giving up jusst yet and will keep on trying. That said if there is anyone out there that has done better I'd like very much to hear from them.

WILLIAM K.

2015-08-26T20:00:00

I do not know who designed this sight, but they need to go back to basic optics school. Whoever "wrote" the manual needs to join him in school as well to learn how to tell people how to use unfamiliar devices. Let's start with the manual. You get six pictures telling you how to install the battery and put the sight on the hot shoe. There is a one (very small) page written in microprint that tells you basically the same thing. The instructions for actually using the sight are to center the dot on the subject while it is centered in the camera monitor. That is it. Now let’s talk about actually using the sight. As anyone who has every used a gun or similar sighting system can tell you, you need two points to accurately align the gun/camera on a target. However, the EE-1 has only the dot. It moves wildly over the screen as you move your head, so if you move your eye from where it was when you set the dot on the screen, you are pointing in a totally different direction. The dot can even disappear with even modest rotation of the sight. When shooting with a 300 mm lens, even small differences can result in totally lost shots. Clearly, a second, stationary point is needed at the front or back of the sight so that there is consistent alignment between the eye, sight and subject. Because of such a fundamentally flawed design, I would give this a 0/5 if it were possible. Unless you have prior knowledge of how to use these sights and a trick to align them and sight consistently, avoid this sight as a waste of money.

David

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