{"id":1597,"date":"2010-08-11T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2010-08-11T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:36:11","slug":"shooting-video-outdoors-with-a-dslr-camera-and-cant-see-your-lcd-screen-try-the-hoodloupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/shooting-video-outdoors-with-a-dslr-camera-and-cant-see-your-lcd-screen-try-the-hoodloupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Video Outdoors With a DSLR Camera and Can&#8217;t See Your LCD Screen? Try The HoodLoupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the growing popularity of DSLR cameras that shoot video, a growing issue for people shooting video outdoors with these cameras has popped up too; the outside glare hits the camera&#8217;s LCD screen and you can&#8217;t see anything. \u00a0While there a number of do-it-yourself solutions, from holding up your hands to block the glare, to using an umbrella, to throwing a towel over your camera, for those wanting a more concrete solution there is the <strong>Hoodman HoodLoupe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The HoodLoupe is essentially a viewfinder that is placed on top of the camera&#8217;s LCD screen. \u00a0It can be manually placed on the LCD screen as needed, or it&#8217;s also available in a kit with the HoodCrane, which allows you to semi-permantenly attach the HoodLoupe to your camera and swing it into place as needed.<\/p>\n<p>The HoodLoupe by itself runs around $80. \u00a0In kit form, the price jumps to around $200. \u00a0But for those continually frustrated by this common outdoor problem, it can be money well spent. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hoodmanusa.com\/products.asp?dept=1017\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a link to the HoodLoupe<\/a><\/strong> and below is a short video demonstrating it:<\/p>\n<p>httpvh:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z4kUDOLIsds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the growing popularity of DSLR cameras that shoot video, a growing issue for people shooting video outdoors with these cameras has popped up too; the outside glare hits the camera&#8217;s LCD screen and you can&#8217;t see anything. \u00a0While there a number of do-it-yourself solutions, from holding up your hands to block the glare, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[642,641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}