An LCD loupe for EOS C100 / C300 / C500. Why not.

Remember Sebastien Devaud’s Canon C100 introduction film (LINK) in September? Well he’s back and he shows us a product that might be a pretty useful and affordable alternative to one of those fancy electronic viewfinders.

The Deitygear 4″ high quality loupe makes us nostalgic and lets us relive the times when we put LCDVF‘s on the rear of our 5D mark II’s. The Deity goes on the EOS C’s flip out LCD and transforms it into a good viewfinder.

I haven’t found the specs for the EOS C’s LCD resolution. But it must me somewhere in between 640×480 and 800×600, probably closer to the former. It’s an important point to consider if the original display resolution is sufficient. Because the loupe won’t give you a sharper image, just make the dots bigger and block out external light.

Official website: www.deitygear.com

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NAB 2012 – First look at the Alphatron retina display EVF

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Just as Cineroid, Alphatron plans to make an EVF loupe that uses the iPhone retina display screen, manufactured by LG.
As you may know this display has a high quality and a screen with 960×640 pixels on a very small space which is almost twice as many pixels as the commonly used 800×480 displays. The EVF is manufactured and developed by renown company TVLogic.

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IBC 2011: LCDVFe – All you need to know about Kinotehnik’s EVF

Tonis’ LCDVF viewfinder for dslrs was a very useful asset two years ago when hdslr filming started. This year his much anticipated digital version of a viewfinder will finally hit the market.

The housing of the LCDVFe could already be seen at NAB in April this year, but now for IBC Tonis had 3 actualy working models with him.

See the video above for a detailed walkthrough and introduction.

The most important things to say about this device are the following:
- very good 800×480 24bit screen
- hdmi loopthrough with audio
- endless features: peaking, zoom, autozoom, guides, markers, crop, anamorphic, etc…
- snappy due to high processing power (Altera Cyclone FPGA processor)
- very little delay (very very important!)
- 15mm rod- and hotshoe-mount included
- powered by 4AA batteries
- diopter adjustment -3 to +2

Testing the device I found it very usable and well made, great glass (screen size in front of your eye), little optical deformation, snappy menu and processor, very sharp image. I haven’t done extensive testing on EVFs, but I did like this device, used it for about 10 minutes.

Tonis says it will be available in large quantities in November.
And it will probably cost 650€ ($890)

Check the Kinotehnik website to preorder.

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NAB 2011 – new metal EVF by Cineroid + pricing

As we announced earlier this month Cineroid has presented their new EVF at NAB 2011.
While the interior seems to have stayed the same as also the name with the same prefix of EVF4… suggests, the exterior has turned to a more durable metal casing and different input output models.

Cineroid was the first company to introduce an EVF and as we’ve seen in Johnnies review before also the tests at NAB showed that the quality of this 800×480 3.2 inch screen is very good and it’s easy to focus (keep in mind that not only resolution but also screen and evf chip quality is important to get focussing right).

Here’s a video with Joseph who shows us some of the many new features and menu system.

As far as I can tell we’re the first here to present pricing and availability of the new units. See below.

Available June 2011:
Metal / HDSI loopthrough:
EVF4MSS – $1399

Metal / hdmi in – HDSDI out:
EVF4MHS – $1249

Available May 2011:
Metal / hdmi loopthrough:
EVF4MMH – $999

Already available (“older” units that came out some months ago with same screen):
hdmi loopthrough:
EVF4Le – $799

hdmi in only:
EVF4Be – $649

Cineroid EVFs are/will be available at the following resellers throughout the wolrd: Cineroid where to buy

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