Seagull Camera Angle Finder for Canon

[ymages]

what do you think of Seagull angle finder

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29982&item=7531807923&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

 

 

it cost 4 or 5 time less than the original from canon

[ryanjoseph]

Provided it does not get bidded higher. And who knows what the reserve price even is?

[glen peterson]

I used to have an old pentax angle finder, for my spotmatic. If I remember correctly I used it on my older eos cameras.

[robin_sibson1]

The non-ECF Canon cameras have an eyepiece fitting that was just about an industry standard, and eyepiece accessories like an angle finder are often perfectly useable across brands. 'Seagull' is a name used by some Chinese manufacturers (PRC? Taiwan? don't know) and that sort of kit was in past times rather of a piece with East German and Russian made items - crude but effective. I have a Russian UOMZ theodolite that caused my friendly local surveying equipment repairer to fall around helplessly - but UOMZ are the guys that made the gunsights for all the old Soviet fighters! Same principle with Seagull. For S/H, one-fifth of the price of a comparable item from Canon sounds to be in the OK to generous range. But if it fits, it will probably work, and may well still be going strong long after your camera has died.

[robin_sibson1]

OK, OK. Uralny Opto-Mekhanichesky Zavod (Urals Optical and Mechanical Plant). Yekaterinburg. Don't mention the tsar.

[shambrick007]

Sunday at the Sham Shui Po market in Hong Kong, I saw a guy trying to mount one of these on his EOS digital body. It didn't look like he was having much success ? it looked like it would not seat all of the way. I wanted to try it on my 10D, but I got tired of waiting for him to finish. I don't know if this was a typical problem, or was the issue with this one sample.

[ymages]

ok .. i'll maybe wait and buy latter the Canon

thank you

[eos 10 fan]

iirc, the Canon angle finder is a 1.25x & 2.5x magnifier... The Seagull on the eBay does not look like it can change magnification... see this:

 

http://www.camerachina.com/products_display.php?id=170

 

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[robin_sibson1]

Dan, I was assuming the comparison was with the earlier Canon AF B rather than the AF C. But that reminds me that a further point to watch is L-R reversal like the even earlier Canon AF A and Waist Level Finder (so-called - I think that one was introduced in Canonflex days, certainly it was available alongside the FX and Pellix). These very primitive AFs used a mirror rather than a little roof prism at the angle. It would be important to chack the Seagull version, since a L-R reversing AF is even harder to use than the modern kind.

[ymages]

for Macro Manual focus and landscape framing it seems to be a good choice

[steve_bright1]

I use a Minolta Anglefinder Vn on my Canon 10D & 20D. It fits perfectly, has a 1x/2x switch and is very good. Strangely though, my Minolta Viewfinder Magnifier Vn won't fit the Canons at all.