Canon Angle Finder C

[Nikolai]

Anybody can provide a feedback on this device? Sid, I remember you mentioned you had one.. Is it used all the time, most of the time, or does it spend most of the time in the bag, or even on the shelf back home?

TIA

[Andy]

Anybody can provide a feedback on this device? Sid, I remember you mentioned you had one.. Is it used all the time, most of the time, or does it spend most of the time in the bag, or even on the shelf back home?

TIA

i use it when i'm tripodding

[pathfinder]

I own one and rarely use it I am afraid to say. I bought it to use in Antelope Canyon, but it was as crowded as a subway station in there, and there was just no way, and I could obtain focus lock with my 10D so....

Since then, it just rides around in my bag weighing me down.:uhoh I think it would be useful for studio shots or macro shots of stationary targets, but I rarely shoot that kind of stuff. :dunno

[USAIR]

Nik
I have one and love it
I use it when shooting flowers,bugs
On the tripod shooting nightshots and anything down low
I like the 2.5X magnification
I don't like that I have to adjust the eyepiece for my eye sight each time I go from 1.25X to 2.5X and back.
Do I use it all the time ...no...but it does keeps me from kneeling on the ground

I was kinda hoping you would buy this (http://www.intro2020.co.uk/pages/zigview.htm) and give us a full report :D

Fred

[Nikolai]

Nik
I have one and love it
I use it when shooting flowers,bugs
On the tripod shooting nightshots and anything down low
I like the 2.5X magnification
I don't like that I have to adjust the eyepiece for my eye sight each time I go from 1.25X to 2.5X and back.
Do I use it all the time ...no...but it does keeps me from kneeling on the ground

I was kinda hoping you would buy this (http://www.intro2020.co.uk/pages/zigview.htm) and give us a full report :D

Fred
Thanks for the feedback!
I remember posting about zigview when it first came out.
Didn't have dslr at the time.
The only problem now - it seems hard to find it online in US, all the retailers are in UK, so shipping would be expensive..
I'll keep thinking of it though!

Cheers!

[Nikolai]

Thank you very much for the feedback!:lust

[Photofoto]

Hello all,

sorry for my bad english.

Can someone tell more about the resolution of the Zigview?

I expect having the focussing more easy by seeing on a wider screen rather the viewfinder of the camera. Am I right?

Thanks for replying.

Réjean


Thanks for the feedback!
I remember posting about zigview when it first came out.
Didn't have dslr at the time.
The only problem now - it seems hard to find it online in US, all the retailers are in UK, so shipping would be expensive..
I'll keep thinking of it though!

Cheers!

[wxwax]

Rejean, welcome to dgrin! Glad to have you posting. I think you ask a very good question. The answer appears to be, no. The resolution is too poor to help with accurate focusing.

Here's a decent review (http://www.kickstartnews.com/reviews/hardware/zigview_digital_angle_viewfinder.html). Note that as of June 2005 it was only for sale in England.

[pathfinder]

ZigView sounds like one of those products that, if they survive, to Version 2 or Version 3, might really be worthwhile. Who hasn't wanted an SLR with a moveable LCD display like many P&S cameras have.

Or maybe Canon, or Nikon, or SONY, might their hand at a simlar product.:):

[Photofoto]

Thank you for replying. I donT think it is a good idea to buy it for now.

The goal of my search was in searching a way to help for doing the focus in the little hole of the camera (sorry for my bad english).

I finally found something more "exciting". For my Canon 5D I found a Nikon Eye piece magnifier DG-2 with the DK-22 Eyepiece adaptor. It fit perfectly on Canon.

You can see at: http://shashinki.com/shop/nikon-eyepiece-magnifier-dk22-eyepiece-adaptor-p-56.html

It is bad that Canon do not produce that kind of equipement for his cameras. It is bad too that Canon do not make similar door in the back of the cameras like they did for Canon Powershot G-serie.

Everything is fine now ...

Réjean




Rejean, welcome to dgrin! Glad to have you posting. I think you ask a very good question. The answer appears to be, no. The resolution is too poor to help with accurate focusing.

Here's a decent review (http://www.kickstartnews.com/reviews/hardware/zigview_digital_angle_viewfinder.html). Note that as of June 2005 it was only for sale in England.

[OsirisPhoto]

Wow, 2 years between posts :oogle

You been hibernating? :wink

[pathfinder]

Interesting discussion that may be completely unneeded now that Nikon and Canon are introducing Live View - allowing visualization with the cameras LCD back like with a P&S.

Houboucha makes great use of the Live View mode on his D300 with an extreme wide angle lens - allows very creative angles that would be almost impossible to view through the viewfinder. Watching its use, was enough to send me to the manual for the 40D on the Canon side to learn more about Live View. I want to explore this technique in more detail in the nest few weeks.

I think Live View will replace the right angle viewer's need, and with the 10X magnification possible make the right angle viewer unnecessary for tripod based shooting.

[Nikolai]

Interesting discussion that may be completely unneeded now that Nikon and Canon are introducing Live View - allowing visualization with the cameras LCD back like with a P&S.

Houboucha makes great use of the Live View mode on his D300 with an extreme wide angle lens - allows very creative angles that would be almost impossible to view through the viewfinder. Watching its use, was enough to send me to the manual for the 40D on the Canon side to learn more about Live View. I want to explore this technique in more detail in the nest few weeks.

I think Live View will replace the right angle viewer's need, and with the 10X magnification possible make the right angle viewer unnecessary for tripod based shooting.
+1 on LiveView, Jim!
Now if only the remote viewers/controllers (be it Z-view or manufacturer's addons) were a little bit cheaper...:wink

[pathfinder]

I hate to say it but my initial impression is that Live View may be better done on the D300 than the 40D, since AF is one by default in the D300.

You can turn AF on in the 40D, but it is clunkier to use - it takes one button push to activate Live View, another to AF and then a third to press the shutter. On the D300 it was half shutter press to activate and focus, full press to shoot.

I wonder if it is any different with the 1DMKlll.

[ian408]

live view is nice but two things. One, if you're doing a night exposure, you
wouldn't want to use it. And when the camera is on the ground, it's still easier
to look through the angle finder :thumb