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Trouble seeing LCD display in sunshine, any suggestions ?
I am having considerable difficulty seeing the LCD displayon the back
of my Sony in bright sunshine. I am having to take multiple shots at varying angles guessing that my subject is nicely framed or not cut off, and still I wind up losing the shot I wanted to take because I couldn't properly see what the display is showing. The viewfinder is next to useless for me as well. I am wondering if anyone here has experienced and solved a similar problem. I am thinking of perhaps some kind of polarizing tape or film I can put over the LCD that will help me see it better. |
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Trouble seeing LCD display in sunshine, any suggestions ?
On Jun 16, 5:43 am, Whiskers wrote:
On 2007-06-15, wrote: I am having considerable difficulty seeing the LCD displayon the back of my Sony in bright sunshine. I am having to take multiple shots at varying angles guessing that my subject is nicely framed or not cut off, and still I wind up losing the shot I wanted to take because I couldn't properly see what the display is showing. The viewfinder is next to useless for me as well. I am wondering if anyone here has experienced and solved a similar problem. I am thinking of perhaps some kind of polarizing tape or film I can put over the LCD that will help me see it better. I have been known to improvise a sort of eye-level 'viewing hood' using a cheap 2" slide viewer; remove the part that holds the slide (some models have that part easily removable) and use the magnifier and rest of the gadget to let you view the screen almost like a traditional view-finder, with most of the glare from sunlight eliminated. Something along the same lines but made of stiff cardboard and a small magnifying glass might be neater; experiment ) (My inspiration was the viewing hood of a roll-film twin-lens reflex camera). There are a few 'hoods' on the market, which claim to make the LCD screen easier to use, but I'm not convinced by them and I haven't seen one with a magnifier built in. This problem is one that compact digicam makers need to address; it annoys everyone I know who has ever tried to use such a camera in broad daylight. An optical viewfinder should help, but on those few compacts so equipped that I've tried, the optical viewfinder is very small and not very accurate - and of course you still can't see any of the 'menus' or other information on the LCD. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you, I'll look for some hoods and if failing to find anything suitable I'll improvise. Thanks again. |
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Trouble seeing LCD display in sunshine, any suggestions ?
MartinS wrote:
Whiskers wrote: On 2007-06-15, wrote: I am having considerable difficulty seeing the LCD displayon the back of my Sony in bright sunshine. I am having to take multiple shots at varying angles guessing that my subject is nicely framed or not cut off, and still I wind up losing the shot I wanted to take because I couldn't properly see what the display is showing. The viewfinder is next to useless for me as well. I am wondering if anyone here has experienced and solved a similar problem. I am thinking of perhaps some kind of polarizing tape or film I can put over the LCD that will help me see it better. I have been known to improvise a sort of eye-level 'viewing hood' using a cheap 2" slide viewer; remove the part that holds the slide (some models have that part easily removable) and use the magnifier and rest of the gadget to let you view the screen almost like a traditional view-finder, with most of the glare from sunlight eliminated. Something along the same lines but made of stiff cardboard and a small magnifying glass might be neater; experiment ) (My inspiration was the viewing hood of a roll-film twin-lens reflex camera). There are a few 'hoods' on the market, which claim to make the LCD screen easier to use, but I'm not convinced by them and I haven't seen one with a magnifier built in. This problem is one that compact digicam makers need to address; it annoys everyone I know who has ever tried to use such a camera in broad daylight. An optical viewfinder should help, but on those few compacts so equipped that I've tried, the optical viewfinder is very small and not very accurate - and of course you still can't see any of the 'menus' or other information on the LCD. My wife bought me an original Canon ZR camcorder 8 or 9 years ago. It came with a clip-on hood with adjustable magnifying eyepiece to convert the LCD screen into an optical viewfinder. Very useful it was too in bright sunlight. Unfortunately the camera no longer works reliably, and I recently bought a ZR700 at a fifth of the price ($400 vs $2000). It would be nice if P&S camera manufacturers provided such a feature. They could, but if they did the product wouldn't be cheap enough for enough people to buy enough of them to make enough money on the first 10K production units. Considering the cheapness of a significant portion of the P&S market, producing a better product doesn't translate to making money. Hence, most P&S products are considered disposable by the manufacturer, and the consumer will eventually agree when they see a repair estimate for their broken LCD hood, rendering the product almost as useless as it already is. IOW, it's a marketing snake that eats it's own tail. -- jer email reply - I am not a 'ten' |
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I am having considerable difficulty seeing the LCD displayon the back of my Sony in bright sunshine. I am having to take multiple shots at varying angles guessing that my subject is nicely framed or not cut off, and still I wind up losing the shot I wanted to take because I couldn't properly see what the display is showing. The viewfinder is next to useless for me as well. I am wondering if anyone here has experienced and solved a similar problem. I am thinking of perhaps some kind of polarizing tape or film I can put over the LCD that will help me see it better. You might want to look at these -- I haven't yet, but will next week. Courtesy of PC World July 2007, page 140. http://www.delkin.com/products/popupshades/index.html Miles |
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On Jun 17, 1:52 am, Miles wrote:
* wrote: I am having considerable difficulty seeing the LCD displayon the back of my Sony in bright sunshine. I am having to take multiple shots at varying angles guessing that my subject is nicely framed or not cut off, and still I wind up losing the shot I wanted to take because I couldn't properly see what the display is showing. The viewfinder is next to useless for me as well. I am wondering if anyone here has experienced and solved a similar problem. I am thinking of perhaps some kind of polarizing tape or film I can put over the LCD that will help me see it better. You might want to look at these -- I haven't yet, but will next week. Courtesy of PC World July 2007, page 140. http://www.delkin.com/products/popupshades/index.html Miles That's really helpful. Thank you |
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On Jun 17, 12:39 pm, Whiskers wrote:
On 2007-06-16, wrote: On Jun 16, 5:43 am, Whiskers wrote: On 2007-06-15, wrote: [...] This problem is one that compact digicam makers need to address; it annoys everyone I know who has ever tried to use such a camera in broad daylight. An optical viewfinder should help, but on those few compacts so equipped that I've tried, the optical viewfinder is very small and not very accurate - and of course you still can't see any of the 'menus' or other information on the LCD. Thank you, I'll look for some hoods and if failing to find anything suitable I'll improvise. Thanks again. I've been doing some more web searching, and found this http://www.eagleeyeuk.com/. The site is badly designed and difficult to navigate, but if you click on 'Click here to enter the website' then on 'Products and ordering' and then on 'LCD sunshades', you find that they are offering a range of products that are effectively up-market versions of my 'slide viewer' bodge - and look a lot more useable. They aren't cheap, but I'm tempted by 'Xtend-a-View Pro(tm) VARIABLE - LCD Sunshade & Viewer' (part XVPRO) plus 'Xtend-a-Mount OMNI (tm) - Universal LCD Sunshade Attachment System' (part XMomni) - if I can convince myself the expense is justified! If your camera has a small LCD, the 'Xtend-a-View Pro(tm) MINI - LCD Sunshade & Viewer' (part XVPROMINI) without the XMomni might be more appropriate. The actual dimensions of the various hoods are mentioned here http://www.eagleeyeuk.com/Xtend-a-View_Compat_FAQ.htm. The camera compatibility lists look very out-of-date. A cheaper approach to the same sort of magnifier hood is offered here http://photodon.hostasaurus.com/v4f.htm and would be more attractive if it came in a size that matched my camera. I found the link to Eagleeyeuk here http://www.ptcuk.com/technical/tech_tips.htm which looks worth a bit of a read. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ I like the hoodloupe, bit pricey but looks like the best solurtion for me. thanxs |
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