Zacuto EVF sunburn repair cost
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puredrifting
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That's really cheap! You lucked out.
I'm surprised at he $75. thats good to know. i would have thought it to be more. with that said i didn't even know that the Zacuto EVF was susceptible to sun burnins! I've been lucky i guess because I've never specifically protected mine. i know the SmallHD stuff was and I've always been careful with those.
david
david
I really expected it to be at least twice that amount.
I only had it for a few days and wasn't using the cap or the little sunscreen thing and I was shooting outdoors in the sun. I powered it on looked through the eyepiece and I see these white blobs, I turned it off and back on and they were still there. A little googling showed me what happened.
Needless to say the sunscreen is installed along with the cap (and I make it a point to use it).
The EVF itself really isn't necessary w/the C100 MkII (but it is on the MkI IMO) because of the viewfinder upgrade. I found it for a great price ($150), it was missing the cables which wasn't a problem as I have plenty.
I bought Zacuto's C100 EVF bracket which was fine until I put the camera on a tripod, then I could no longer reach the EVF if I had the camera set above my eye line (becuase the clamp on the bracket doesn't move). So I mounted another clamp on the end of the bracket just above the viewfinder. While that did the trick every time I needed to move the EVF I would have to move the entire thing to other clamp (and that was a PITA). So I picked up a 3" z-rail and a Z-Rail Rod Lock and while that now does the trick it's added bulk to the bracket in addition to cost. So I emailed Zacuto and suggested that if they design another version to consider cutting a nato rail into the bracket itself so you could mount a Rod Lock and simply slide the EVF forward and back.
I only had it for a few days and wasn't using the cap or the little sunscreen thing and I was shooting outdoors in the sun. I powered it on looked through the eyepiece and I see these white blobs, I turned it off and back on and they were still there. A little googling showed me what happened.
Needless to say the sunscreen is installed along with the cap (and I make it a point to use it).
The EVF itself really isn't necessary w/the C100 MkII (but it is on the MkI IMO) because of the viewfinder upgrade. I found it for a great price ($150), it was missing the cables which wasn't a problem as I have plenty.
I bought Zacuto's C100 EVF bracket which was fine until I put the camera on a tripod, then I could no longer reach the EVF if I had the camera set above my eye line (becuase the clamp on the bracket doesn't move). So I mounted another clamp on the end of the bracket just above the viewfinder. While that did the trick every time I needed to move the EVF I would have to move the entire thing to other clamp (and that was a PITA). So I picked up a 3" z-rail and a Z-Rail Rod Lock and while that now does the trick it's added bulk to the bracket in addition to cost. So I emailed Zacuto and suggested that if they design another version to consider cutting a nato rail into the bracket itself so you could mount a Rod Lock and simply slide the EVF forward and back.
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