Delkin Announces Pop-Up Shade for Digital Cameras

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.delkin.com/popupfinder/' target='_blank'>http://www.delkin.com/popupfinder/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Delkin Devices, Inc., maker of premium quality eFilm® memory cards and other innovative digital photography products, is now shipping the Universal version of their popular Pop-Up Shades. All Pop-Up Shades allow you to see your camera’s LCD screen in the sun and protect it from damage. The sturdy, lightweight covers are easily installed and protect a digital camera’s expensive LCD screen. Universal Pop-Up Shades are designed to work on most digital point and shoot cameras and feature a new two-part design that allows the shade portion to be removed, leaving the LCD guard in place."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/popupshade_pro_canon20d.jpg" /><br /><br />Interesting. I have been taking photographs with digital cameras for quite some time now and I always ended up using the viewfinder when there was too much light on the LCD or some such. Of course, with a Digital SLR, I don't even see a need for a device like this because you are always looking through the viewfinder. I just find it hard to believe that people would need something like this. My camera bag is already quite heavy with a number of accessories, I don't think this is going to make it in there. Any of you find this useful?

[mrwickham]

I believe this is really aimed at the DSLR camera rather than point &amp; shoots in which you can see "live" through the LCD and viewfinder. If you check their site you'll see that under the Canon cameras support you will only see 10D, 20D, Rebel, Rebel XT, and finally the S500. Only the S500 could be called a point and shoot IMHO.

The idea is that once the shot is taken the image can be reviewed in the LCD - too much light makes that difficult at best. The hood helps in that area. One problem area for me with the device is that it's a bit of a pain to open and close the hood, especially if you taking picture after picture. It didn't last long on my 20D.

Another issue, which has little to do with the hood, is that the camera's LCD is really much too small and poor of quality to trust as an image reviewer. The best thing is to learn to use the histogram which is easy enough to see even in bright light (it's only bars). So, I agree no hood needed.