30 Dec
This is the best £100 you will spend for your Canon C100 a 3″ Hoodman Loupe with a 4″ Hood Riser. The one thing that had me in a tiz using the C100 was focusing, the C300 has a decent viewfinder but the C100 comes with a VF that quite frankly is a joke.
Add the Hoodman with a hood riser and you have cracked it, the 3.5″ LCD is more than capable of allowing critical focus, this brings the C100 into a different league adding a cracking second camera to the C300 and an all in one solution.
As you can see the Hoodman loupe can be used in this upright position for lo-angle filming it comes with a flexible sheath that contains the 3″ loupe and the 4″ riser you will have to cut a section out of the sheath in order to get it to fit round the LCD.
Took the C100 out for a further spin today using it as a B camera just to satisfy my curiosity, as you can see both cameras match very well together and thats on a C300 @ 720p and the C100 @ 1080 50i.
I would have no second thoughts using the C100 as an A or B camera, Canon may have downgraded the camera to 4:2:0 @ 24Mbps but take it from me back in the edit suite taken onto a 720p timeline you cannot “see the join”.
I now have a dilemma I was going for a JVC GY-HM600/650 for run and gun but the success of pairing the two Canon’s together has made me re-think what avenue to go down. I love the C100′s lighter body for hand held use…the far better use of XLR’s on the handle…the 3.5″ LCD on the back of the camera and finally the IOS button on the body of the camera.
Having dug out my Hoodman and hood riser has given me a far better feeling towards the C100 as it gives you the ability for critical focus something thats sadly missing from the standard C100 configuration. I also have the Zacuto EVF but that needs arms, batteries and adds weight…no thanks.
I hope to film a scenario with the C100 on new years eve just to give you a flavour of the run and gun performance and low light capabilities, this should be edited the next day and uploaded for all to see during this coming week, have a Happy New Year and a great 2013.
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Great!
And you wanted to give this little beauty ***.
Glad you changed your mind.
The lcd screen on the C100 is 3.5 inches. Are you not seeing some of the picture on the Hoodman? Hoodman also has a velcrow strap to attached their viewers to camcorder screens. Might that work?
Thanks,
Just to give some follow-up on this… The riser that Philip uses on the Hoodman converts the 3″ Hoodloupe to work on 4″ screens. This is suitable for 3.5″ screens too, I used one years ago on the 3.5″ screen on my Sony V1E.
The photos above show the velcro strap wrapped round the loupe and riser already.
With the evf attached, do you think its putting to much torque on the flip out lcd to do any harm?
Thanks!
Thank you very much, Philip, for this forward stroke. You made my day! I use tape to fix the Hoodman and it works very good.