A Weird film Camera Accessory

28 thoughts on “A Weird film Camera Accessory”

1. As a glasses wearer, I need this yesterday.
   Genuinely, why is this not the default on every single finder and EVF?

   1. Hey, companies know they can put less design into higher tech products and sell for more.

      Easier to upgrade a chip or a sensor, than creating a whole factory line for an updated body design.

      But old designers had more motivates innovate with form because film tech lagged behind design.

      Now it’s the opposite and it’s a real shame. I’m studying product design in university to change this ❤

   2. Honestly I almost never use an onboard flash or external flash or what I do and having waist level is actually more useful for outdoors in my case so it made like a little hot shoe you know one by one and Screen I can just slide in place I pay like 200 bucks for that

   3. Yes, here here

   4. ב”ה, focusing, as isn’t necessarily a big deal, but the original big deal of *having* a SLR was getting all up in that through the lens view like a microscopist, and if you didn’t care you could use a cheaper and lighter style of camera.

      Then everyone agreed it was easiest to teach ‘real’ photography with a SLR, giving students the option to learn rangefinders or classic TLRs or whatever else after getting some experience with what that ‘microscope’ view of the focal lengths and apertures and so on actually shows you, as a SLR lets you play with endlessly before even wasting film taking the shot.

   5. ​@josephkanowitz6875honestly I could care less about the flipping between waist level and eye level views. The real killer feature here is that the long eye relief makes it a much better option than potentially scratching my glasses smashing it into the viewfinder hole (and not getting a full view anyways) or buying diopter inserts and having to take my glasses off every time I want to shoot a shot.

2. I have one for my Pentax LX. A mixture of two standalone viewfiner: good point, but not so easy than each. Same as zoom compared to prime.

3. The F-1 was always an object of lust. A good friend who taught me photography used one. I couldn’t afford one at the time.

   1. 100%

4. I have no idea why modern full frame cameras don’t have a built in tiltable EVF or at least the option to use one. Fiddling a lot with product photography of usually smaller things in natural light I’ve felt the need for one on many occasions.

   1. ב”ה, how many don’t?

      I’ve been away for too long, but surely “cast”ing to a phone has been available for a while and then any that aren’t completely smashed to bits with a working battery are your EVF from anywhere?

5. i have this for my F1N. used it a lot during lockdown in NYC when i was running and gunning the desolate streets

6. Sooo hard to find, if so, very expensive.

7. Eye relief! Anyone who uses firearm optics is familiar with the concept, but frankly it’s a phenomenonal Idea on cameras too

   1. Every Nikon using a pentaprism has it, since F3HP from the early 80s. U r welcome.

   2. @almostrandomcreaturehow far’s the eye relief on those, then?

8. Awww from an era when cameras were built as a system.

9. Oh I had angle viewfinder for my om2, but this system of watching from further distance, thats awesome. Is image flipped left to right?

10. As a youngster who was obsessed with photography technology in the late 60’s and 70’s I tend to have seen everything before – but I don’t remember that at all! I had a Nikon WLF for my F2 and it wasn’t really that useful (I found it was hard to focus accurately) but this looks much more interesting!

11. That’s wonderful and it sounds like a very solid plastic

    1. The housing is made of brass

12. Brilliant!
    ❤❤❤

13. The F1 was a lovely camera.
    I used to run a Pentax LX and it also had an adjustable viewfinder (the FC-1), which was very useful. I think there were around six different viewfinders available.
    Good video. Thank you for posting.

14. this is so genius. I wish people still made parts like these for modular cameras like the Nikon f3. I would pay good money for this

15. Basically, live view for slr

16. A REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT!

17. If only Nikon could have come up with this.
    Brilliant!

18. Literally using this right now why does YouTube know this

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