Product Description

Ever find it hard to get your SLR in just the right angle to take that Perfect shot you've always wanted. Hoodman's H-RAV Professional Right Angle Viewfinder let's you line up an off the deck shot without needing to crawl on your belly. H-RAV features include a built in diopter with 1X and 2X capbility, full 360 degree rotation and universal mounting attachments for many Digial SLR cameras. Compact, protective storage case included.

Product Details

• Brand: Hoodman
• Model: HRAV
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

Features

• Includes - Protective Storage Case, Universal Mounting Attachment, User Guide

Customer Reviews

Right Angle Viewfinder
Comes with adapters for vitually every camera. Works good, not quite excellent, but good.

I do use mine and I would recommend it to a friend.

Hoodman Right Angle Viewfinder
Great little device that I use when doing Macro photography. It has good magnification allowing precise focusing on the subject.

Hoodman right-angler viewfinder 1x, 2.5x
Tested the Hoodman r-angle viewfinder doing indoor tabletop setups using the 100mm f/2.8 macro, and then with wildlife in the swamp with the 400mm f/5.6+1.4X extender. It's a lens combination that's always a bear to manage. "Focus-ability" does improve, but far from remarkable. Almost as much trouble as it is worth. Workable, yes, but hardly noteworthy.
Definitely has a jury-rigged quality feel, akin to one of those weekend shop projects cobbled together.
Flip a switch and the viewfinder changes from 1X to 2.5X (magnification, but only a small portion of the total image is visible at 2.5x).
But the units' diopter ring requires a major adjustment (roughly a 90-degree turn with no stops on either end) when going from 1X to 2.5X and back. A major pain, and time consuming... of an image that really isn't crisp to start with. At 2.5X one ends up seeing a healthy dose of pebbly-grain on the camera's viewfinder, the image itself doesn't "pop" in and out of focus.
Another negative, the right-angle viewer (mirror plus glass within) kills more camera viewfinder light.
Eyepiece isn't really suited for wearers of glasses (as 80% of us do). Glass quality of the Hoodman unit is tolerable in the center, falls off rapidly towards the sides. Eye-opening requires that the eye be exactly over dead-center.
On a 5-Star scale I've give it a 2-star rating.
Unless otherwise judged a required item for low-angle work, save your money. This isn't a professional tool.