Daylight Viewfinder: detachable viewfinder for the iPhone

Projects of crowdsourcing community Kickstarter usually very promising. Their developers are often avid gadzhetomany, coming up with devices or accessories, which sometimes is lacking in modern man in the street. This usually occurs because of the lack of one or another particular favorite among devices.

So, the developer Paul Anderson (Paul Anderson) came up with none other than the Viewfinder for iPhone. Yes, it's something, like the viewfinder in a more or less serious digital cameras. By the way, this thing looks like a healthy lens that is mounted directly on the smartphone display.

Why is it so difficult? Just in a very bright sunny days, even on such a classy display as the Retina in the iPhone, it is difficult to see what you want to remove, due to glare and bright light. With the same eye Daylight Viewfinder, invented by Anderson, daytime shooting turns into a simple and pleasurable process.

Daylight Viewfinder works in conjunction with a special application that displays in a particular area in the picture resolution 216h162 points. Not much, of course, but the lens inside the viewfinder image and the user increases quite comfortably can parse the subject matter. It should be noted that it is high resolution and pixel density Retina enabled to create this kind of accessory.

Of course, the picture the output is standard, the quality is so, how it should be photo taken on the iPhone camera. That is, the role of the Daylight Viewfinder only to hide the photographer's eye from sunlight and let him see for capturing the image without interference.

As for compatibility, the Daylight Viewfinder will work with the iPhone 4 and 4S, iPod touch 4th generation and the new iPad. The estimated cost of the product is $ 20.

Accessory to be sold in online stores like Amazon and in retail outlets. This will be possible if the project is successful and will collect the necessary sum from Kickstarter users. The app can be downloaded from the App Store free of charge. At the moment, the project has collected a little more than $ 1,100 of the required $ 44 thousand. Until the completion of fundraising still have 26 days, so that it is possible to count on the support of the users of the ideas of Paul Anderson.

Although it seems to me - it's completely useless thing. Taking on the phone is not carried out for the sake of some quality, but for the sake of speed - saw-took-took, everything. If start "dancing with a tambourine" around the outer viewfinder - until it get one until Start the desired program, attach an accessory, will glance through the peephole, you miss ten times interesting point. In addition, iPhone display is good enough to give out somehow distinguishable image even in bright sunlight. Nevertheless, the idea of ​​Daylight Viewfinder interesting, I hope, Paul Anderson will succeed.