Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
cputeq wrote:
On the videos, it looks like that guy is using a hoodman (?) to use the rear LCD as a big EVF.
Seems to me that would feel really unstable, but he\'s hand-holding it. Anyone else ever use one of those in this particular fashion?
This is pretty common for motion shooting, less so for stills. I do it on some of my cameras. The most common such product the Zacuto Z-Finder. They make plates that put a mounting frame in front of your LCD, or if you want to maintain LCD articulation they have a stick-on frame that you can attach to your camera. Both are actually quite solid. The only problem is that, depending on how the LCD articulates, the weight of this can make the LCD \"droop.\" I actually made a product called a Kickstand Plate that addressed this problem with the original A7 series (you can still see it in the cover image of my company Facebook site, for a demonstration of how this type of thing would be used https://www.facebook.com/ellisphotographic/)
It\'s so great because it\'s not just a hood but also a loupe / magnifier (and you can still see the whole LCD!). It\'s wonderful if you have presbyopia or even are an eyeglass wearer. Beats the pants off jamming your nose into the LCD trying to look into an EVF.
Here\'s what makes me nervous: the new X-T2 inexplicably still has a garbage ~720x480 LCD (and the X1D actually has a 640x480 [middle finger emoji]) like we\'ve been stuck with since the D700 generation. To some extent you\'re just magnifying pixels, and not helping yourself see the image better. With the glorious-but-four-years-too-late 1024x768 LCD of the D5/D500 series, these loupes are a million times more useful. The X-Pro2 has the 900x600 model Canon is using on the 5D IV and 1D X II; hopefully this camera gets at least that.
This is how sick I am of looking into viewfinders: assuming their aren\'t other serious problems in the as-yet-vague specs, which LCD this camera gets will literally determine my level of interest.
Sep 20, 2016 at 04:55 AM
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