It's time to replace the carry around camera

Dr Hal wrote:

Go to website www.clearviewer.com . It is easy to use, inexpensive, and small. I have been using one for years.

Hal

Hal, Double the price and have it sold with the Panasonic/Olympus logo and everyone would have one.  But have an odd idea made by a small outfit and nobody is going to take the chance with THEIR money.

Anyone that has tried the lens on a stick idea knows that it does work.  But meantime there is a cacophony of demands for an evf - any evf.  At any price it seems.

The only real problem with the Clearviewer for the GM1 is that it is semi-permantly mounted on the tripod mount.  Although it folds the resulting melange makes it a larger package than the GM5 which incorporates a small but very useable evf.  The GM5 was stratospherically priced compared to the GM1 once, but no more.  This almost makes the GM5 the only camera at that party.

I made my own version of the Clearviewer principle but with a magnetic mount so that I could click it on and off as necessary with a minimal mount stub on camera.  I went further and devised several mount stubs so that the same device could be used on several different cameras. I am retired and I have no serious manufacturing facilities so I have not attempted to market them.

I called it the "VEfinder" to differentiate it from the commercially available Clearviewer.  If you search this forum you should find references and illustrations of my invention.