Anyone tried video glasses instead of monitor?

Roberto Hapsad said:
Try getting a candid crowd shot. With video glasses people mostly ignore the tripod & camera.They act naturally, you can frame & focus better. You get better shots and so when you ask the talent to sign release forms they are happier with the way they look. There used to be video glasses which allowed you to choose whether to focus your eyes through a projected image at the street - or else at the projected video image itself.
Worth their weight in gold.
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I think this would work against you. If you have the video glasses how are you going to tell that to your right or left their is someone in the crowd doing something that would be an amazing shot. With video glasses you are putting on blinders to the world, and besides if your camera is on sticks, you aren't really incognito. Seeing whats going on AROUND the camera, is just as important as what is going on IN FRONT of it.
 
robmneilson said:
With video glasses you are putting on blinders to the world, and besides if your camera is on sticks, you aren't really incognito. Seeing whats going on AROUND the camera, is just as important as what is going on IN FRONT of it.
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You misunderstood. The situation is where the producer tells you to go into the street to get cut-aways to illustrate a voice-over like, "in the western world, an astonishing 18 per cent of us can expect to develop diabetes.." One of the places you go is into a city street. You want ordinary faces, nothing special, long lens to squeeze the talent together. You don't want any shots you'd get sued for broadcasting - like some guy kissing a girl instead of his wife. To get 30 seconds you can use you might expect to shoot at maybe 20:1 (10 minutes). I find your best shots are when you are talking to the sound guy and people are totally ignoring you. Looking down at an external monitor makes them glance down at what you're doing. The semi-transparent glasses worked great and we got away faster than ever. Whether looking downhill of a busy footpath, across traffic to pedestrians at crossing lights, it saves heaps of time. One person every 2 minutes looks at a tripod, but your D.O.F is set past them anyway.
Whether used for saving time in your own town or saving your life in Baghdad, semi-transparent glasses can be just one more photographic tool that has its uses.
 
I've tried the Vuzix Wrap QVGA glasses... and yes, they're headache-inducing, uncomfortable, and, for me, hard to avoid double vision with. I can only think of one situation where I'd use 'em... shooting from a convertible in bright sunlight with the camera in an awkward position.... only had to do that once or twice...
 
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One of the Vusix pro range. Don't bother with the cheap glasses!
 
Wouldn't they look at the weird dude wearing glasses from the future though? They might mistake you for a time traveler or possibly robocop and ruin the shot!
 
I have an older pair of MyVue glasses that I used to use with my DVX. They were great for shots on compact jibs, and I also used them with my Glidecam. There was enough filed of view around the monitors that I could see where I was walking. Took a little practice, but they were great. Haven't tried them with my T2i.
 
Just break it apart & use 1? Additional eyepiece for DP...

Honestly, this is a great idea, just have to find one with proper resolution & some image options.

edit: So the new from Ziess looks really interesting actually. I'm the effin' minimalist himself, have these around your neck & check the shoot with 100% proper sharpness/focus check. Not for a crew but for the one man filmmaker this is pretty damn sweet, at least in theory!
http://www.oled-info.com/carl-zeiss-cinemizer-plus
 
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robmneilson said:
Wouldn't they look at the weird dude wearing glasses from the future though? They might mistake you for a time traveler or possibly robocop and ruin the shot!
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Dude...
It's like this: You sets up your tripod, you sits on a Pelican case, looking *away* from the talent, you gets your shots in the can. OK?:beer:
 
I had a pair of Sony Glastron video glasses in my closet...tried them as a monitor. I had a major headache like 10 minutes in (probably why they ended up in the closet in the first place haha)
 
Martin Oller said:
edit: So the new from Ziess looks really interesting actually. I'm the effin' minimalist himself, have these around your neck & check the shoot with 100% proper sharpness/focus check. Not for a crew but for the one man filmmaker this is pretty damn sweet, at least in theory!
http://www.oled-info.com/carl-zeiss-cinemizer-plus
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just make sure they're 720p before spending any money on this: there are lots of conflicting information about different cinemizer products (lots of pages say the "plus" is 720p, the official page says it's not; your link says the "OLED" model is 720p, engadget says it's not)
 
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