But maybe that’s your thing.
Slipping into any camera’s hot shoe mount, this ‘Wildlife Photography with Tactical Four Reticle Sight’ allows you to frame your subjects the semi-lethal way, with either red or green lasers marking a point, circle point, circle cross or cross, just like your favourite Tom Clancy novel. And don’t worry, since the laser is integrated solely into the optics, those pesky red dots won’t appear anywhere in your picture.
Available now for $US40 – it’s perfect for headshots. [Brando]
dakotaTex
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 11:23 AMzensflare: it allows you to aim the camera even if it is at an arms distance. For example, if you are shooting video with a Canon 5D, you may have a mounting rig that does not allow you to easily hold your eye to the viewfinder. Those sights also work well when you are following fast moving objects – you can see a much larger field of view making it easier to track objects. Finally, if you are having to ‘run and gun’ – i.e., shoot while moving, it’s much safer to use this type of a viewfinder than looking through the camera eyepiece.
dfoolish1
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 2:47 PMThe Canon 5DMKII only shoots video in liveview mode – i.e. the display on the LCD. There is no need to look through the viewfinder.
the reason you’d use this is in low light situations, the human eye can see better than what is shown through the viewfinder- making it easier to site/frame your shot through the laser sight in low light.
the other use for this is if you are using a big zoom, ie. when you’re shooting wildlife, this laser sight if correctly calibrated, will allow you to ‘centre’ the subject similar to how you’d use a finderscope on a telescope.
Deadwood1887
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 1:12 PMThis sight really works. Here is proof. Try taking this photo at 840mm zoomed out of an aircraft traveling at high speed several thousand feet in the air.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77383755@N05/6790796770/in/photostream