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Small camera for viewfinder

Started Feb 17, 2019 | Discussions thread
LeeP 416 New Member • Posts: 1
Re: Small camera for viewfinder

I tries something similar when I was doing a lot of macro shooting with a body that had no video out. Trying to look through the viewfinder frequently necessitated turning myself into a human pretzel and I'm not very flexible any more .

My solution was to mount the camera body to a piece of wood with a channel routed through the center to allow a small video camera to be shimmed to the height of the viewfinder. By varying the distance of the video camera to the viewfinder and trying different levels of zoom I was able to get a viewable  image which I then routed to a 12 volt monitor. I could also imagine using a wireless POV system designed for drone flights. Hope this gives you some ideas.

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