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Video Visor for Camcorders and Cameras
By George Margolin,
editor@netsurfernews.com
HOORAY! - AN EYE-LEVEL VIEWFINDER AVAILABLE FOR MILLIONS OF
CAMERAS THAT LOST THEM WHEN CHEAP FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS TOOK OVER SMALL
CAMERAS, CAMCORDERS & SMART PHONES!
THE ONE AND ONLY MAGNIFYING EYE-LEVEL FINDER
STABILIZING SYSTEM that fits in your shirt pocket.
Shoot best with snap-on snap-off eye-level-viewfinder!
Until recently, ALL cameras had Eye-Level
Viewfinders to view focus and compose your subjects. They were on
all video and still cameras. And because these cameras were held
tight to the photographer’s eyes with both hands for steadiness, they
allowed their subjects and scenes to be viewed in magnified clarity for
focus-checking, tracking and composing. Eye-Level finders were immune to
being washed out by sunlight because the heads of their users blocked
the bright light and permitted the photographer to distinguish all
aspects of the scene. But perhaps most importantly – this rigid physical
combination of hand, arm, eye and body, permitted tracking rapidly
moving subjects like running children and fast moving sports like
soccer, football, basketball, skiing, diving, indoors and out, in
sunlight or in shade, day or night. This allowed professional
photographers to capture the kinds of striking photographs you see on
the covers of Sports Illustrated and other magazines. It permitted photo
pros to shoot with the ability and stability of a sharpshooting sniper.
But, the arrival and substitution of cheap
flat panel LCD and other displays rang the death knell to Eye Level
Finders, on all but the most expensive prosumer and professional still
and video cameras. Worse – or maybe better – digital cameras have gotten
so small they are often called ”pocket point and shoots.” Because of
their small size, they are much easier to carry, but much, much harder
to hold steady, to view and are virtually useless for composing and
tracking action, particularly outdoor action. Since these displays are
small, unshaded flat panels virtually ALWAYS held far from the eye,
because normal human focusing distance needs to be about 14 inches to
focus well. And often these tiny washed-out by-the-sun screens become
virtually invisible! So, though these pocket cameras are convenient to
carry and capable of excellent photographs, the pictures they take are
seldom even close to the capabilities of their marvelous miniature
lenses and high density sensors, except in low light surroundings.
Yet, they are now THE cameras most of us now
carry.
So the
question is -- How many “real cameras” do you see being used today? The
answer -- Few. Very few! Remember – You can only take pictures IF you
have a camera WITH YOU!”
With our inventor’s “Future Sense” – we
anticipated this sea change in photography and created our invention to
universally fit and bring back the many advantages of the
eye-level-viewfinder, for virtually all camcorders, pocket cameras and
the millions of new smart phones, which are clearly, the only cameras
that nearly everyone carries with them whenever and wherever they go.
To do this, we designed our folding pocket
sized eye-level finder to be small, rigid and in the current production,
injection molded for strength and manufacturability. It is a one piece,
self contained, flat folded living-hinge unit which fits in a man’s
shirt pocket or a woman’s purse. It opens quickly and is made with
adjustable stretch bands to fit virtually all Camcorder’s flag-type
LCD video finders, virtually all pocket-sized Point-and-shoot cameras
and most pocketable Smartphones, which -- while increasingly clever,
have all the same viewing and light-washout problems as the rest of flat
panel display finders. And our Patent Pending American invention is
fully self contained, including its foldable, attached, flat custom
magnifying lens, which can be snapped over the viewing end when needed
and flipped and locked out of the way when only a shadow box is needed.
Bare view with No additives- UGLY
VIDEO VISOR SHADE
EYE-LEVEL VIEW-FINDER WITH MAGNIFIED VIDEO VISOR
AND IT’S MADE
IN AMERICA!. It can be found at
VideoVisor.com
George
Margolin is former Technical Editor of “Popular Photography”
And a
life-long photographer and inventor. This will be his 27th
patent.
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