Z-Finder or Monitor?
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Moojangles
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biggest advantage of a monitor is the ability to put the cameras weight over your shoulder when shooting hand-held, move everything to the back of the rig except the monitor, makes shooting smooth handheld shots a lot easier. That being said there are some great setups where the Z-finder works perfectly as well, a monitor isn't a must-have, the cheap $200 lilliput is a great starter monitor though.
manglerBMX
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putting an SRA on that camera is a waste of resources in my opinion. i always send sound scratch tracks via sennheiser g3 unit.
but back to your question: depends what kind of shooting you are doing. is it single camera op run and gun? is it in sunlit conditions? will it be humid(even with anti fog, zfinder can still fog up). ideally, i'm psyched on the zacuto EVF, where it can be a viewfinder and a flip open lcd, with pass through to a client monitor.
primarily i'm a sound guy and most of my shoots with dslr's there are always monitors, every now and then there will be a shooter with a zfinder but i notice that about 1/3 way into the shoot they'll take it off or only use it if its really bright out.
but back to your question: depends what kind of shooting you are doing. is it single camera op run and gun? is it in sunlit conditions? will it be humid(even with anti fog, zfinder can still fog up). ideally, i'm psyched on the zacuto EVF, where it can be a viewfinder and a flip open lcd, with pass through to a client monitor.
primarily i'm a sound guy and most of my shoots with dslr's there are always monitors, every now and then there will be a shooter with a zfinder but i notice that about 1/3 way into the shoot they'll take it off or only use it if its really bright out.
It's going to be a couple of exterior daytime walk and talks which I plan to shoot handheld (with possibly a monopod for support) and a bunch of interior stuff. Part of the issue here is that the 60D is unable to fill the whole screen of a monitor so the 5" Marshall I bought provides a viewing area barely larger than the LCD (and the peaking filter doesn't seem to really work). It was over $500.
With regard to the SRa - I own it and the hotshoe attachment already so I'm going to give it a try. I don't wish to record single system with a DSLR but it could go to a DSLR that was hooked up to video village and could aid in monitoring with sound there.
With regard to the SRa - I own it and the hotshoe attachment already so I'm going to give it a try. I don't wish to record single system with a DSLR but it could go to a DSLR that was hooked up to video village and could aid in monitoring with sound there.
Michael Carter
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I love my finder loupe (Cavision in my case) and I use it constantly, but I haven't had the need for much of a handheld rig.
I have a cheap 7" LCD I used with my DVX, which I've mounted to a fig rig for crazy angles, and of course on a crane or for slider shots.
I really love the focusing confidence from a finder-loupe with magnification though, and outdoors it's priceless. To me the LCD is either (A) special cases or (b) if something in your style just demands it. eventually you do need both though.
I have a cheap 7" LCD I used with my DVX, which I've mounted to a fig rig for crazy angles, and of course on a crane or for slider shots.
I really love the focusing confidence from a finder-loupe with magnification though, and outdoors it's priceless. To me the LCD is either (A) special cases or (b) if something in your style just demands it. eventually you do need both though.