Nauticam 0.8:1 viewfinders review

Phil Rudin · Issue 129, Nov/Dec 2022 · pp. 37–38

Products mentioned: Nauticam 45° 0.8:1 viewfinder, Nauticam 180° 0.8:1 viewfinder, Nauticam 32°/1:1 viewfinder, Nauticam NA-A1 housing, Nauticam #32215 viewfinder collar adapter, Sony A1, Sony A7s III, Sony A7r V, OM-Systems OM-1, Nauticam NA-A7C housing

It has been over ten years since my review of “enhanced viewfinders for EVF cameras” appearing in uwpmag.com issue #66. Since then the mirrorless camera market has exploded worldwide with what seems like a new model offering almost monthly. Mirrorless cameras of all sensor sizes have completely overtaken the now all but dead DSLR camera market. They are now the mainstay of the interchangeable lens camera market with sales beginning to dig out from the Covid downturn and the onslaught of cell phone competition. Everything about mirrorless cameras has improved dramatically over the past ten years including lightning fast auto focus for many of the top cameras, large electronic viewfinders with resolution in the 3,69M dot to 9,44M+ dot range, high frame rates in the 30 FPS range with electronic shutter, large raw file sizes in the 45 to 60MP range, higher flash sync speeds in many of the ca…