Sight might be a solution for that. Check out the video without test the EE-1 Dot

Sight and see how it can help you and why it is really useful.

Hi there I am Peter Forsgard an Olympus Visionary and a professional

photographer from Helsinki Finland and before we get into the EE -1 Dot Sight

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be a better photographer and of course about Olympus gear, but let's start

And a disclaimer this EE-1 Dot Sight is my own. I bought it a few months ago just

because I'm not very used to making images with long lenses and this will

help me a lot. EE-1 Dot Sight is an external viewfinder which helps you to find

subject when you're using a long lens, because without it, it's sometimes really

really hard. Have you ever tried it? Please, let me know in the comments down below.

You attach the EE-1 to the hot shoe of your camera and what's great

about this is that this works with any camera, it doesn't have to be an Olympus

camera. You can use this with any camera and with any long lens and now that it is

attached. We open it and then we need to turn it on so that we can see

the the red dot and then it has to be calibrated. I've chosen the

middle focusing point and then I will put this to the same point that I've

have chosen from the background and what you do you have two little knobs here

and you just need to, okay this way now and let's see now we have it now it's

exactly in the middle and now it's ready to be used. Very simple and easy. Remember you

need to calibrate this for every lens that you are going to use it with and if you

have a zoom lens then I would calibrate it to the longest focal length of that

zoom lens. So remember that if you switch your lens you need to calibrate your EE-1,

but it's not actually a big deal. It's quite easy as you saw.

Let's see what's in the box. When you get this and what you have in the box, of

course you have a manual, you have a battery for it then you have the EE-1

itself and then you have a small pouch for it.

And now this is your viewfinder and you hold your camera like this and

what you do is to you will set the red dot to the place you want to take an

image of and when you have calibrated the focusing point exactly to the same spot

where you set the red dot. You will have a perfectly sharp image on exactly what

you indented to make the image of. The advantage of this is that you see a lot

more around your viewfinder if you just have your eye closed to your EVF then

you don't see anything besides what's inside the EVF but if you use the EE-1

Dot Sight you see also what's happening around your viewfinder, so you are seeing

what is going to happen and this is actually a same method that sports

photographers used to use and they used to have what is so-called sports

viewfinder, but then there are some disadvantages of holding your camera like

this. It is not the most let's say stable way, but remember you have very good

stabilizer in this combo. All Olympus cameras have a very good stabilizer so it's

not that big of a deal and when you start using it it's really really handy

but of course when you get more experience with that, then you can just

ditch this, but I know that very many very experienced photographers, nature

photographers, bird photographers use this because it makes it so much easier

to find your target because with a long lens it's really really kind of awkward to

find if you're not, well not awkward is a wrong word, but it's not that

easy to find if you're not very experienced. See there are some

birds.

Now it's easy to find those birds far far away but it's really easy let's see

if I can take any image, too far too far, no use of making those images.

The normal price of this is a bit over 100 euros here in Europe but I got it a bit under.

I got it for 99 euros and that's why I decided to get it for myself, because I'm

not very used to using long telephoto lenses and this is going to help me a

lot when I do some bird photography and what I do bird photography it's city

birds because I'm not an outdoor person I really like to be inside the city and

not out in the woods, So that's perfect for me. City birds are the ones that I'm

going to use this and help me to get better images of those and if you're

planning on getting this - there will be some links in the description of this

video. Those links are Amazon affiliate links and please consider using those

links if you want to get one of these, because you don't pay any extra but I

get a small commission if you get this or anything else in Amazon. Thanks if

you're using those links and there are some other videos that you might want to

watch. These two videos, the first one is about the 300 millimeter and the second

one is about 40-150 millimeter lens so you might want to watch those next if

you haven't seen those yet, but hey thanks for watching and bye for now.