
Shooting stock footage with my Sony A7s and the great #Zacuto rig + Z-Finder. Love this combo. Small and foldable! #zacuto #a7s #dolomites #sony

Shooting stock footage with my Sony A7s and the great #Zacuto rig + Z-Finder. Love this combo. Small and foldable! #zacuto #a7s #dolomites #sony

Low shots with the #r3d Epic and the Zacuto AXIS EVF mount. Best one I’ve used so far. #zacuto

Using the @Zacuto Axis EVF-Mount. Best mount I’ve used so far! #featurefilm #setlife #r3d #zacuto

Finally got my hands on the @Zacuto AXIS EVF mount. Perfect! This will be my A-Cam rig for the feature film shoot. B-Cam is also Red Epic. C-Cam for pick up shots will be BMCC or Sony F3! #r3d #zacuto #viewfactor
I have to admit, that I have never used any optical viewfinder on my DSLR. Most of the time I focus with the small back display of my SLR camera. I read on many blogs in the past, that a viewfinder like the Z-Finder is an absolutely essential tool for DSLR filmmaking. Not for me! For my personal taste it is easier to focus without any optical viewfinder. The electronic zoom of the Canon DSLR‘s helps me much getting all my objects in focus. This isn‘t usable for „run and gun“ shootings, but for most of the jobs it is okay. Don‘t get me wrong, the Z-Finder is a great piece of kit, but for my taste the resolution of the video capable DSLRs is too low for a loupe. I always can see every single pixel of the lcd and this issue makes it harder to find the correct focus. This is history now! I have a Cineroid EVF and it has become an essential tool for my daily work behind the camera. Since then my camera work has fundamentally changed. I don‘t want to go shooting without an EVF! I‘m using it for my DSLR‘s, but you also can…
This year I wasn’t on NAB, but next year I will fly to Las Vegas (together with Micha Schmidt, Nino Leitner and Mario Feil) and visit this great fair trade.For those who have missed it too, I have made a great DSLR round up of NAB 2010. Some of the videos are from the great Dan Chung and you can watch them on Vimeo too! Just follow this link to see more videos of NAB 2010 in Las Vegas. My personal highlight was the Remote Follow Focus from Redrock on NAB. I hope this gear will keep what it promises. NAB 2010 – Redrockmicro Remote Follow focus with iPhone demonstration Vimeo at NAB 2010 Zacuto at NAB 2010 Jag35 DSLR cage system at NAB 2010 GENUS at NAB 2010 Redrock at NAB 2010 Ikan DSLR rigs and monitors at NAB 2010 Zeiss ZE, ZF an Compact Primes lineup at NAB 2010! Great lenses! Cinevate at NAB 2010