Cineroid EVF - pointed into sun burned pixels
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Matt Gottshalk
Resident Preditor
The LCD screen isn't a magnifying glass, the viewfinder attached to it is.
Hello everyone.
If you're shooting outside, one quick thing you can do to avoid having the burnt LCD is flip open the optical loupe when you have to walk away from the camera.
Bobby, please send the EVF to the manufacturer in Korea. They will replace the EVF for you. The address can be found on the cineroid.com website.
If you're shooting outside, one quick thing you can do to avoid having the burnt LCD is flip open the optical loupe when you have to walk away from the camera.
Bobby, please send the EVF to the manufacturer in Korea. They will replace the EVF for you. The address can be found on the cineroid.com website.
sloppygummo
Member
Hello Joseph, at the moment I cannot send the EVF to Korea cause I need it for a docu project. Hope I will survive with those pesty spots on the LCD panel for a while
Thank you again for your kindnessBobby
Mitch Gross
Veteran
As Joseph noted, just flip open the eyepiece if you leave it pointing up. This same problem exists on everyone's LCD eyepieces. Be happy it is an $800 Cineroid instead of an $8000 Sony.
Roy_RSFilms
New member
Hi all. I too have just joined this site specifically to contribute to this thread. I have found this site very useful over the years and very much hope this post is taken in the helpful spirit it is given. I recently purchased a Sony FS700 and although I am delighted with the camera, the built in LCD screen and loupe viewfinder leaves a lot to be desired. I knew that when I bought it, so I also purchased a Cineroid EVF4 viewfinder. Let me say right away that I am delighted with the Cineroid VF, it is a wonderful bit of kit and gives a superb picture. However, like Bobby, please, please, please be careful even in the mildest of sunlight. I live in north-east Scotland, not a place noted for its strong sun, or indeed any sun at all for most of the year. I have been using electronic viewfinders on a variety of ENG type cameras for over twenty years and sadly did actually damage a viewfinder many years ago now by allowing it to point directly into the sun - so ever since that day, I have been painstakingly careful never to do that again. However, after using the Cineroid for a couple of interior shoots, I took the camera outside on a mildly sunny day and I can assure everyone that in no way was the VF pointing into the sun at any time. Yes, I did have the shadow disc removed but I had a Cineroid ECR eyecup cover on the VF and yet I still managed to damage my brand new VF by a couple of sunspots appearing on screen. I have to accept full responsibility for this, but I just ask everyone to be incredibly careful to try to make sure the same thing does not happen to you. The Cineroid is an excellent VF but I have to say it seems to be incredibly sensitive to sun damage. Sadly, every time I use it now reminds me of this. Hope this post prevents others from the same misfortune. Still a great VF though.
After 15 years of doing outdoor sports remotes, we never once lost a CRT VF, in the last 10 years we haven't lost one in our digital cameras, guess we are extremely lucky and something I better make our teachers aware of so that maybe our students won't fry anything. Only about $1500 to replace, but budgets are not unlimited!
This is something I never really thought about before.
This is something I never really thought about before.