A 35-mm camera usually has a direct-vision viewfinder, often combined with a rangefinder or autofocus system for accurate distance settings.
They don't believe me at first but once Matt looks through his viewfinder, with his peripheral vision, they realise I'm right.
Just put a video camera in the main character's hand instead of a flashlight -- make that a video camera that offers a night-vision feature -- and make its viewfinder the audience's point of view.
Also known as "Add-a-Vision", this system consisted of a viewfinder, connected to video monitors, that was used to capture an image directly from the shooting camera.
In photography, the viewfinder should not be a limitation it's merely one part of a larger vision.
She said the biggest challenges facing researchers designing these fusion goggles, called Enhanced Night Vision goggles, are weight, battery life and, in particular, poor alignment of the two images when dropped into the viewfinder by prisms.
Save the optical viewfinder!
The viewfinder is another matter.
