EVF mounting tip...

[John Cordell]

I had been using the 5" Red arm to attach the EVF, which never really worked very well for me. Today I chanced upon something simpler that works really nicely (assuming you have the side handles).

I took a 1" 1/4-20 screw and put it through the back left handle, through the topmost vertical screw hole. I made that quite tight, so now I have a screw jutting out from the handle. I put two rubber washers onto that screw followed by an aluminum washer, then I screw on the EVF. Once the EVF gets tight, there is just the right amount of friction so that the EVF can be tilted to the desired angle with little effort -- and it stays put exactly where you leave it.

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks to me like the front handle would work nicely as a mounting point for handheld work -- especially since there are four screw holes to choose from on the EVF itself, so there will be a range of choices to control how far back or forward the EVF sits.

Anyway, since the solution involved all of about 30 cents worth of parts, and it works really nicely for me, I thought I'd share.

[Andrew Benz]

Thank you John, is there a chance you could take a photo? If you can't, no worries.

What are your impressions of the EVF?

Congratulations on getting your EVF btw.

Cheers-- Andrew

[Thom Steinhoff]

Hey, Andrew, like the new avatar.

Looks like your in my batch--Got your money in?! I just did my final wire today--looks we're in for the time of our lives!

[Andrew Benz]

Thank you Thom... sent you a pm.

[Craig Bowman]

As I have the side handles I look forward to giving that a try. Also nice to see EVFs finally making it into the field. 200 left to go!

[John Cordell]

Thank you John, is there a chance you could take a photo? If you can't, no worries.

What are your impressions of the EVF?

Congratulations on getting your EVF btw.

Cheers-- Andrew

No problem.

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[Alexander Nikishin]

I had been using the 5" Red arm to attach the EVF, which never really worked very well for me. Today I chanced upon something simpler that works really nicely (assuming you have the side handles).

I took a 1" 1/4-20 screw and put it through the back left handle, through the topmost vertical screw hole. I made that quite tight, so now I have a screw jutting out from the handle. I put two rubber washers onto that screw followed by an aluminum washer, then I screw on the EVF. Once the EVF gets tight, there is just the right amount of friction so that the EVF can be tilted to the desired angle with little effort -- and it stays put exactly where you leave it.

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks to me like the front handle would work nicely as a mounting point for handheld work -- especially since there are four screw holes to choose from on the EVF itself, so there will be a range of choices to control how far back or forward the EVF sits.

Anyway, since the solution involved all of about 30 cents worth of parts, and it works really nicely for me, I thought I'd share.

What was it about the 5" RED Arm that didn't work for you?

Have you tryed the 9" arm by any chance?

Thanks.

[Andrew Benz]

Thank you John very much for doing that and the feedback below.

[John Cordell]

What was it about the 5" RED Arm that didn't work for you?

Have you tryed the 9" arm by any chance?

Thanks.

The EVF is pretty heavy, so when you loosen the arm, you're faced with a bunch of weight on a loosey-goosey arm. Not conducive at all to making minor adjustments. Plus you want the EVF to always be oriented level to the horizon, and the arm has too many degrees of freedom. There's no setting on the arm that allows you to gently move the EVF around, you basically need to tighten it fully. I don't think the 9" arm will solve the problem, although the ability to carry a bigger load would help the cause somewhat.

The LCD is a different story -- I finally realized that there if I gradually loosen the arm, I can get a tension level that allows minor adjustments by hand without having to adjust the arm tension. The weight of the EVF doesn't really allow that.

[Alexander Nikishin]

Thanks, good to know.

[Matt Uhry]

It seems obvious, but have you considered the element evf bracket ? is it not ready yet ?

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

[John Cordell]

It seems obvious, but have you considered the element evf bracket ? is it not ready yet ?

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

The Element Technica bracket isn't out yet (due any day, though). Given the build quality of everything they do, it will no doubt be expensive. I'll certainly consider it once it's shipping, but so far this is working pretty well for me.

[Andrew Benz]

From what I understand, the price will fall under $1000 for the EVF bracket and will be shipping very shortly (i.e. mean really soon). I am sure Stephen will chime in with more solid info.

[Brook Willard]

The ET bracket is close... I got a chance to check out the latest pre-production model and it's fantastic.

As for mounting the EVF on an arm... it's true, it's a bummer. The biggest issue I see is that the EVF constantly goes out of level. We're all so used to just grabbing a viewfinder and moving it to where it needs to be that trying to do it on a little arm just doesn't cut it.