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<blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 459494" data-attributes="member: 3903">I'll try again.It's almost impossible to explain what you are seeing since the picture you supplied is too small for us to judge. From your description: &quot;There is a center dot, always red, surrounded by 6 white dots, then the rest kind of grey/bluish&quot;, this is I think the normal view in the viewfinder. It shows the different focus points, the red one being the presently active one. I'm not sure it can be turned off as it is part of the camera's focus acquisition and confirmation system. Since you say it does not appear on a picture, it's probably there on purpose.What you could do is take the camera to a camera store in your area with the tubes and show them and ask them their opinion. As far as focusing, you have to remember that the extension tubes reduce the light coming inside the camera quite a bit, and if your tubes don't have the electronic communication switches with the camera, all is done with the aperture closed. This would make it almost impossible to manual focus in normal circumstances. Hope I've helped a bit...Good luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcel, post: 459494, member: 3903"] I'll try again. It's almost impossible to explain what you are seeing since the picture you supplied is too small for us to judge. From your description: "[COLOR=#000000]There is a center dot, always red, surrounded by 6 white dots, then the rest kind of grey/bluish", this is I think the normal view in the viewfinder. It shows the different focus points, the red one being the presently active one. I'm not sure it can be turned off as it is part of the camera's focus acquisition and confirmation system. Since you say it does not appear on a picture, it's probably there on purpose. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]What you could do is take the camera to a camera store in your area with the tubes and show them and ask them their opinion. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]As far as focusing, you have to remember that the extension tubes reduce the light coming inside the camera quite a bit, and if your tubes don't have the electronic communication switches with the camera, all is done with the aperture closed. This would make it almost impossible to manual focus in normal circumstances. [/COLOR] Hope I've helped a bit... Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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