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[Ben_B]

I find it is more difficult to pull a focus using the LCD. With the EVF I can get right on focus in no time. I wouldn't think of it as a matter of comfort but more of functionality. Ben, would be cool if you could elaborate on that rig build you got there. I made a figrig for quick handhelds but it's kind of uncomfortable holding it up to my eye that way. What you got there is more like it for certain situations.

Lets see, here's the different ways I usually use it: shouldered like a rifle with my eye in the viewfinder, with my right hand on the camera's grip. Two-hands using LCD holding the lower handle and the stock like a handle. From the hip with the LCD, camera grip and stock. From the hip, upside down, LCD, lower grip and stock. Cradling the PVC with two hands, LCD. Tucking the stock in my armpit, holding by lower handle or camera grip, LCD..the list goes on.

I can go into more detail on how it's constructed or maybe post a quick tutorial, it's pretty easy. The hardest part to find is the airsoft stock but that stock came from a gun that cost less than $10.

There are some limits to how adjustable it is as it's basically held together by tension between wing-nuts on all thread and the other parts...but it is completely sturdy in the configuration pictured. I need to cut down the all thread a bit...it can get ya good if you run your arm into it.

 

[Martti Ekstrand]

You could get 2 GH1s, two of those gunstocks and then go out shooting akimbo style. Should make for the weirdest 3D footage ever rogar-BigGrin(DBG)

 

[tflak]

For those who still think they need a LCD-loupe there are also other less costly options than Zacuto's like the LCDVF and the Cavision loupe.

Philip Bloom has a review of the LCDVF and does an impartial comparison with the Z-Finder:

http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/11/23/lcdvf-viewfinder-for-dslrs/#more-6406

The deal breaker for these old eyes would be the lack of a diopter on the LCDVF.

 

[Ben_B]

Sometimes you just need to go heavy No fancy Z-finder here! Yeah I am ****ing begging for monitor out while recording.

 

[tflak]

It's the stealth qualities of that rig I find most appealing.

 

[Ben_B]

It's the stealth qualities of that rig I find most appealing.

Darn right! ^.^

This is actually probably going to a 5D rig for a film I'm DPing in the winter/spring.