I put the smooth part on the Houdloupe and let the sticky portion grip on the inside of the Hoodloupe. I then bend it around (cut relief cuts on outside corners) to the outside of the Hoodloupe. I then went around the outside of the HoodLoupe and Velcro with black electricians tape as it is pretty much the same color as the Hoodloupe.

Again, the industrial version of Velcro has a real good stick to it.

Thanks Jim.

That's a great solution that I'll certainly have a go at. And so obvious too .... once someone else has done it :-)

I have some of the industrial Velcro but I'm using a modified LCD shade on the camera. Fixing Velcro to the LCD shade was easy enough, but even Velcro tech support couldn't help with fixing it to a rubber material. Glad I saw your post.

Rollei SL 66 Loupe on a Canon 5DII
 

Glad to be able to use some old stuff:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/members/p...adjustment.jpg http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/members/p...underneath.jpg
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/members/p...ing-screen.jpg
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/members/p...rivet-srew.jpg
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Hi Bruce,

how could you make those folks selling you anything? Their website seems to be dated from 1978 and the worst ever site I have ever seen as for selling stuff.
All you get is product descriptions, they are very mysterious about their prices and ordering seems to require some emailing foreplay before they allow you to shoot (your order, I mean).
They seriously need some web designer who places an order button on the site and connect it to some merchant account that deals with Paypal.
Although the product looks great I cant imagine many people go for the hassle they want customers to suffer in order to own their stuff.

Hi, Zsolt

Their website drove me nuts, too. So I used the phone number found somewhere on that site and called them. It's actually better that way as your needs can be more actually discussed.

Ok, here are the pics. The Hoodloupe might look dusty but thats just my untidy work, now clean.
Works perfect. No Velcro, nothing directly glued to the camera.

Thanks
 

I would like to thank all those in the thread who described the hoodloupe + LCD shade solution. I followed it and works like a charm. Not only is the most ingenious one, it is the only solution that enable me to use the battery pack.
Since I have found a number of Contax, manual focus lenses very cheap, I use it even for still photography because is much more easy to focus and judge exposure with the Houdloupe attached.

Thanks again!!!

Now that I have used Hoodloupe I found a couple of shortcomings:

1. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread the eyecap is not very comfortable and needs upgrade.

If you look through the Hoodloupe slightly off center it distorts so much that you can't see anything. This sometimes can become very annoying. I wish there were better optics in there, but I guess I got what I paid for.

Hi Jon, where exactly is the sensor located? I need to drill the hole but could not locate the exact location. Thks

Light sensor is right below the live viewfinder next to on/off switch.

finalize with LCD cover shader combination
 

I'm searching the method to fitted the hoodloupe 3.0 on my 5D2 for 2 weeks, and end up with LCD cover shader, why?
- at first day tried with elastic bands (industrial one 3.0 mm.) same way with the original rubber band ($20 from Hoodman), it fitted quite well but can move off center to the LCD and to fitted in and out quite difficult without practice.
- then I started order the LCD cove shader from Hongkong, it cost $9.30 plus shipping, since it not so costly then I didn't expect much.
- during waithing for, did a lot of searching on the other methods and found that the idea of redrock micro is look practical, but didn't order since it quite expensive.
Now the LCD shade came, it quite impress on it made quality, let say it acceptable on it quality and you can hook it on your camera without feeling shy.
The way to fitted LCD shade with Hoodloupe, I did the same way as show by "Zsolt Gordos".
Then you better to put in some absorbing material not to protect the scratch but more to prevent the light leak as I did and finalize I would say this is a prefect combination in my opinion, not expensive, good look, fast snap in and out, easy to pack in your bag.
Most of the thing is it change the using of camera when shooting with video handheld, it more stabilize and able to focus manually while shooting especially for the one whom came from photography.

I still like that Cavision solution as the best of all. If it had an adjustable diopter I would have bought it the day I ordered my camera.

One thing nice about the IDCPhotography/Hoodman, and most likely the Cavision too, is that it's sturdy enough that you can pick up the camera by it if necessary with no worries.

I wouldn't. It's strong but I wouldn't risk it.

I did exactly the same as Zoltos but added an iCuff to the business end for extra comfort and light blockage. For carrying about, I just pull the iCuff off and turn it round and slip it back on to make the whole thing a smaller package. A bit like you do with your lens sunshades.

Works a treat.

Avey