Anybody use this Hoodman Mirror Flip Thingy?

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I know. I know. I'm an evil person because I cannot fork out over $1K for a true HD external monitor for my HVX. :evil:

But has anyone used this Hoodman Mirror thing to frame with?

Yes i realize it's not great for focus. I just want to play with my nifty new SGPRO due to arrive in a couple of weeks. It would be great to not fry my lizard-like brain trying to mentally upright the image. :zombie_smiley:

If only I had "only" $800 for a marshall. But I don't. :violin:

This isn't ideal, but then what IS in indie run and gun filmmaking?

All this to say, thanks in advance for any first-hand feedback.... :engel017:
 
I know this is off topic a bit but where can you find a Marshall for $800? I've been looking for one and what I've seen is more like 1300-1500.
 
I'm actually keen on building my own with foam core and velcro...but having no luck finding a mirror. (go figure)

would love to hear if this even comes close to doing the trick or if it's worth effort. So far, Target, Wal-Mart and Walgreens' have been a bust...
 
Thats a pretty horrible product. They don't mention that it only flips it vertically and that it will still be horizontally reversed making it difficult to follow any movement. They're also using a standard mirror which is creating the ghosting you can even see in their product shot. You really need to use a surface reflective mirror to eliminate this.
 
I tried something similar when I went from my regular DVX to a rented HVX for a music video (no magnet flip...). I gave up the mirror after a few minutes and ended up hand holding and looking at the monitor upside down. It just ended up being easier that way...

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kfrogg said:
no worries. i didn't take it that way Ram S.O.S. are you using an adapter? if so, how are you monitoring now?
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I'm not using an adapter yet but I'm finally in the market for one and getting a good monitor for focusing seem to be essential. I'll be purchasing a letus Extreme in about 3 weeks.
 
>so, j. -
>1. what do you use to monitor

The rig is mine (ed35 style), as for the monitor I had planned on using the mirror but ditched the idea and just used the camera monitor instead... It actually felt like operating an ArriSR the way I was hunched over and looking down into the monitor! (not recomended)
 
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