Brother Power

Update: so I also dropped this question to Bernie at Super16 since he's a stand-up guy and will be doing my U16 conversion. Anyway, he said it would work so I got some close-up lenses, and per the usual, he was right on the money. I did an eyeball test indoors while looking through my 10mm angenieux, wide open at 1.8, and the image was soft, but add one +4 close-up lens and pow! It snapped into focus. I still need to know how close I can get and to do some film tests so I'll post again once that's done.

I have tried without my glasses and with contact lenses and it's a total straight-up bust. As I've said, I've only gotten the viewfinder to work with the 35mm right-angle viewfinder over it which, if I understand it right, is adding some additional diopters and magnification. I haven't gotten a solid consensus about whether it's my eyes or if there's a problem with the camera, but after I do my tests, I'm sending it back for a check.

Nuts. So diopters do zero for fixed focus lenses?