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| Hoodman Professional Right Angle Viewfinder for SLR Digital Cameras | 
 enlarge | Brand: Hoodman
Category: Photography
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $92.59
You Save: $37.40 (29%)
New (3) from $92.59
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
MPN: H-RAV
Model: HRAV
UPC: 017932550022
EAN: 0017932550022
ASIN: B000GVL34U
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Hoodman Right-angle Viewfinder May 28, 2008
Product seems very good but, honestly, haven't had an opportunity to actually use it yet! Initial set-up was very good and I believe it will work for me in my application of taking Astro Photographs. Only concern I have about it is that the Detents on the swivel portion seem excessively loose and I anticipate that over time (short time) they may become too loose.
Right Angle Viewfinder March 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Comes with adapters for vitually every camera. Works good, not quite excellent, but good.
I do use mine and I would recommend it to a friend.
Hoodman Right Angle Viewfinder July 30, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great little device that I use when doing Macro photography. It has good magnification allowing precise focusing on the subject.
 Hoodman right-angler viewfinder 1x, 2.5x May 23, 2007
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Tested the Hoodman r-angle viewfinder doing indoor tabletop setups using the 100mm f/2.8 macro, and then with wildlife in the swamp with the 400mm f/5.6+1.4X extender. It's a lens combination that's always a bear to manage. "Focus-ability" does improve, but far from remarkable. Almost as much trouble as it is worth. Workable, yes, but hardly noteworthy.
Definitely has a jury-rigged quality feel, akin to one of those weekend shop projects cobbled together.
Flip a switch and the viewfinder changes from 1X to 2.5X (magnification, but only a small portion of the total image is visible at 2.5x).
But the units' diopter ring requires a major adjustment (roughly a 90-degree turn with no stops on either end) when going from 1X to 2.5X and back. A major pain, and time consuming... of an image that really isn't crisp to start with. At 2.5X one ends up seeing a healthy dose of pebbly-grain on the camera's viewfinder, the image itself doesn't "pop" in and out of focus.
Another negative, the right-angle viewer (mirror plus glass within) kills more camera viewfinder light.
Eyepiece isn't really suited for wearers of glasses (as 80% of us do). Glass quality of the Hoodman unit is tolerable in the center, falls off rapidly towards the sides. Eye-opening requires that the eye be exactly over dead-center.
On a 5-Star scale I've give it a 2-star rating.
Unless otherwise judged a required item for low-angle work, save your money. This isn't a professional tool.
 Excellent quality, and a necessary accessory May 6, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
This Hoodman accessory is of the highest quality, comes complete with adaptors, and should be carried routinely by any serious DSLR tripod-using photographer. Pricey but worth it.
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