Can you use a Canon Angle Finder C handheld?

[pulseimages]

I would like to shoot low without having to get on my stomach and the Canon Angle Finder C looks like the perfect solution but I don't want to use a tripod. Has anyone had any experience using one handheld? Thank you.

 

[Loswr]

Yes, I use my Angle Finder C handheld.

 

[pulseimages]

Yes, I use my Angle Finder C handheld.

Great, I see that you use a 1DX, do you release the shutter with the vertical grip shutter button or shoot with the Angle Finder C normally?

 

[Loswr]

Great, I see that you use a 1DX, do you release the shutter with the vertical grip shutter button or shoot with the Angle Finder C normally?

Either, depending on my position, how I'm holding the camera at the time, and the orientation in which I am using it. The angle finder can rotate around it's attachment, so you can use it with the camera in portrait orientation, too.

 

[mb]

Hmmm, I've got an old "Angle Finder B" lying around here, from my analog SLR times (EOS 100, back in the 1990s).
Has someone here experience in adapting an Angle Finder B to the new Canon DSLRs, e.g. 5D Mark III?

Regards,
Mattias

 

[Loswr]

Hmmm, I've got an old "Angle Finder B" lying around here, from my analog SLR times (EOS 100, back in the 1990s).
Has someone here experience in adapting an Angle Finder B to the new Canon DSLRs, e.g. 5D Mark III?

Assuming you still have the Adapter S (for square), I think that works with many dSLRs, but I'm not sure about the 5DIII.

 

[mb]

Hmmm, I've got an old "Angle Finder B" lying around here, from my analog SLR times (EOS 100, back in the 1990s).
Has someone here experience in adapting an Angle Finder B to the new Canon DSLRs, e.g. 5D Mark III?

Assuming you still have the Adapter S (for square), I think that works with many dSLRs, but I'm not sure about the 5DIII.

Thanks, Neuro.
Yes, I do have a square mount on the Angle Finder B. But sadly enough it doesn't fit to the 5D3...

 

[Loswr]

Yes, I do have a square mount on the Angle Finder B. But sadly enough it doesn't fit to the 5D3...

Bummer. The Angle Finder C comes with two adapters, and I need to use the larger one for my 1D X.

 

[pulseimages]

Great, I see that you use a 1DX, do you release the shutter with the vertical grip shutter button or shoot with the Angle Finder C normally?

Either, depending on my position, how I'm holding the camera at the time, and the orientation in which I am using it. The angle finder can rotate around it's attachment, so you can use it with the camera in portrait orientation, too.

Could you please post a photo you took using the Angle Finder C handheld? Thank you.

 

[Loswr]

Could you please post a photo you took using the Angle Finder C handheld? Thank you.

Here's one...


EOS 5D Mark II, MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro @ 3.5x, 1/60 s, f/14, ISO 400, MT-24EX

 

[pulseimages]

Could you please post a photo you took using the Angle Finder C handheld? Thank you.

Here's one...


EOS 5D Mark II, MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro @ 3.5x, 1/60 s, f/14, ISO 400, MT-24EX

So it's hard to get sharp images using the angle finder handheld?

 

[Loswr]

So it's hard to get sharp images using the angle finder handheld?

??

No, it's hard to get much DoF at high mag, without focus stacking. Only a very thin region is in crisp focus.

 

[Marsu42]

Yes, I use my Angle Finder C handheld.

How much practice does it take to get used to it? I though of buying one (China ripoff, of course ) vs. lying in the mud with my non-swivel screen 6d, but am not confident it'll feel as natural as looking straight through the vf and I won't use it much in practice.

 

[Loswr]

Yes, I use my Angle Finder C handheld.

How much practice does it take to get used to it? I though of buying one (China ripoff, of course ) vs. lying in the mud with my non-swivel screen 6d, but am not confident it'll feel as natural as looking straight through the vf and I won't use it much in practice.

Not hard. Takes me back to using my first camera, an Argus TLR (albeit with less eye relief).

Just be sure the version you get presents a normal image – some of them, including the 'A' version from Canon, reverse and/or invert the image, which would make handheld use a real PITA.

 

[Sporgon]

Could you please post a photo you took using the Angle Finder C handheld? Thank you.

Here's one...


EOS 5D Mark II, MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro @ 3.5x, 1/60 s, f/14, ISO 400, MT-24EX

That's a great piece of macro focusing; you've nailed a tiny depth of field focus bang on the grasshopper / cricket / locust - not sure what it is !

Just out of curiosity, how did you achieve focus on this ?

 

[Loswr]

That's a great piece of macro focusing; you've nailed a tiny depth of field focus bang on the grasshopper / cricket / locust - not sure what it is !

Just out of curiosity, how did you achieve focus on this ?

Thanks!

I focused the way I usually do with macro shooting - manually set the lens focus distance/magnification to where I want it, then move the camera back and forth and release the shutter when focus is where I want it. With the Angle Finder C, the 2.5x magnification option helps.

 

[TAF]

Hmmm, I've got an old "Angle Finder B" lying around here, from my analog SLR times (EOS 100, back in the 1990s).
Has someone here experience in adapting an Angle Finder B to the new Canon DSLRs, e.g. 5D Mark III?

Regards,
Mattias

If you have the "S" adapter, it works just fine on the 5D3. That's what I use.

And I do use it hand held most of the time.

 

[BL]

Hmmm, I've got an old "Angle Finder B" lying around here, from my analog SLR times (EOS 100, back in the 1990s).
Has someone here experience in adapting an Angle Finder B to the new Canon DSLRs, e.g. 5D Mark III?

Regards,
Mattias

yeah I use the B version on my 5Dc all day long. Never found a reason to upgrade to C because of that.

 

[mb]

yeah I use the B version on my 5Dc all day long. Never found a reason to upgrade to C because of that.

Hi BL,
seems that either you've got an other mount on your AF-B than I or that the 5D-c has a different mount-shoe for the eye-cap than the 5D-III.
Here is a picture of my AF-B in total plus it's mount next to the mount-shoe of my 5D-III.
I hope that someone just could tell me "buy the 'Adaptor xxx'" or so

 

[pulseimages]

So it's hard to get sharp images using the angle finder handheld?

??

No, it's hard to get much DoF at high mag, without focus stacking. Only a very thin region is in crisp focus.

Without focus stacking typical results lends itself to a very thin region of crisp focus?