What if you replaced the display on a camera with a massive viewfinder?

What if you replaced the screen on a camera with a massive glass viewfinder?

It’s surely innovative, although I wonder what the merits are to having a chunk of glass where you’d have a display. The advantages of a display are A. replication accuracy, B. aren’t as fragile as glass, and C. can display things like menus, guides, metadata, but designer Deepak Kumar believes having a curved concave slab of glass (with a curvature that matches the focal length of the camera lens) would result in a more unique experience. The glass slab would have a few obvious pitfalls. A. Glass is fragile, B. You’d have to hold the camera at a specific distance from your face to see things in the viewfinder perfectly, and C. Parallax. You have to look at the glass at an exact 90° angle to see your composition clearly.

Nevertheless, the LUCID camera takes on an approach one would say is analog. I’d honestly love to see a camera with a massive glass viewfinder, just so I could be much more aware while composing my shots, and possibly being rather surprised by what photos I actually end up clicking. This would be a very interesting accessory for a GoPro if someone could build it!

Designer: Deepak Kumar

What if you replaced the screen on a camera with a massive glass viewfinder?

What if you replaced the screen on a camera with a massive glass viewfinder?

What if you replaced the screen on a camera with a massive glass viewfinder?

What if you replaced the screen on a camera with a massive glass viewfinder?

What if you replaced the screen on a camera with a massive glass viewfinder?

Essentials-Only Digital Photography

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The LUCID camera is a literal approach to point-and-shoot digicams that makes perfect, simple sense. Rather than a battery-sucking digital screen with lag time and added expense, it features a concave sense that matches the focal point of the camera. Users can see exactly what’s in frame and in focus, in real time! Stripped to the bare essentials, it’s all you need to capture the moment!

Designer: Deepak Kumar

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