Deity Mira – Quality viewfinder for Canon C300 / 500

The Deity Mira viewfinder is an LCD loupe for the Canon EOS C300 and EOS C500 cameras offering a convenient, complementary solution for handheld and outdoor use.

Filmmaker Sebastien Devaut has been closely involved in the development of the Deity Mira which was created with the quality demands of professional camera operators in mind. The device is made of high quality materials, precisely milled aluminum and two custom made glass elements. After a long development period it is finally beginning to be shipped out.

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DP4 monitor/EVF review by smallHD + violent torture test

The very small high resolution field monitor, the DP4 by smallHD has started shipping last month. One of the interesting features of this monitor is that it supports hdmi loopthrough and also doubles as an EVF (Electronic ViewFinder).

In this video Wes and Dale, the creators of smallHD monitors, give you a detailed look at the DP4 and DP4-EVF attachment.

The drop test at 19:13 is interesting.

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Redrock Micro EVF announced at half price: $375

At NAB last month a lot of companies showed their working or not yet working Electronic ViewFinders. Very useful additions to our dslr video beasts as they will make fancy, frontheavy rigs obsolete, give us a higher resolution eyepiece display and possibly even do hdmi loopthrough for 3rd party monitoring.

So far these amazing tools were priced between $750 and up to over $1000 dollars, but it seems like the new lowest price has just been set down to as low as $375! Keep in mind that that’s about the price of a good lcd loupe alone…

There is no release date for said evf yet, but Redrock Micro’s Brian Valente, who was first to announce an EVF by the way, says that the other companies are“all seeming to add features to justify a price of $750 or even more”
and “to us, that runs counter to the idea of HDSLRs and democratizing high production value. Something different needs to happen” and laid out their production stage as “(…) going back to the designs to see how we can produce high quality for around $350-375 target. It would be a minor miracle, but that’s what we’re working on.”

Brian, we need your evf and we need it now, or soon, but please hurry.

via planet5D