P. J. Alling wrote:
Glen wrote:
At 12:17 PM 8/8/2005, Mark Roberts wrote:
Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Seems to me you want a waist-level finder, plain and simple.
>
><http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/focusing/viewfinders/FF-1.jpg>
Nah. One of THESE:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0506/05060701zigview_lcd.asp
Interesting but useless on an slr.
I meant the description below, of course. The item above is meant for
use with a SLR.
I had a friend who did better than that. He bought a broken digital
camera on eBay, which matched the model of his functional digital
camera. He removed the LCD from the broken camera, and connected it
to his functional camera via a 1-meter extension cable he constructed
himself. I don't remember the exact details of the implementation,
but I do remember that the setup was great for holding the camera
over your head (perhaps atop a monopod), to capture shots above a
crowd. :)
Some digital cameras have connections for video out, or computer
hookups. It would be great if you could view a "live viewfinder
image" over these connections, but I bet most of these are for
playback of previously recorded shots only. The idea of a "remote
viewfinder" is a nice one. If it could be made wireless, and if the
camera had some wireless controls, that would be even better. :)
take care,
Glen
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