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Viewfinder clips June 2021

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Understanding Your Viewfinder - How to Use Your Camera, Part 9

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Making and Using Viewfinders

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How to adjust your camera viewfinder / diopter

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How To Use an Apple Watch as a Viewfinder on your iPhone

In photography, a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and, in many cases, to focus the picture. Most viewfinders are separate, and suffer parallax, while the single-lens reflex camera lets the viewfinder use the main optical system. Viewfinders are used in many cameras of different types: still and movie, film, analog and digital. A zoom camera usually zooms its finder in sync with its lens, one exception being rangefinder cameras.