HandiZoom Makes Video-Shooting SLRs Easier To Handle
The HandiZoom is handy. And it zooms
The HandiZoom is an add-on camera grip that makes your SLR handle more like a camcorder. A really big, heavy camcorder. It is currently at the prototype stage, but looks like it could prove popular with one-man crews shooting documentary footage.
The grip puts all of the common camera controls at your fingertips, and even includes zoom switches which trigger a motor that then moves the lens itself. Thus you can easily replicate the crappy, amateurish zoom-while-shooting technique beloved of vacationing camcorder owners the world over.
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Combined with the Hoodman-style eyepiece, which turns the big rear LCD screen into a sun-proof viewfinder, this actually looks like a very practical piece of kit, even if it does make the user look a little dorky. As a prototype, there isn’t a price or launch date yet, so keep your fingers crossed.
- Via PetaPixel
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
