Zacuto Viewfinder and other stuff

A buddy who's a still photographer bought a 7D to shoot both stills and video after hearing about all my shooting with the 5D.    He tried shooting just using the optical VF and the live View LCD  as he would with his Nikon and, predictably, he was unhappy with the results.

A viewfinder is a must for these cameras.  I like the Zacuto the best.  It's got a great field of view and, more important, you can have your eye pressed to the VF all day.

But this begs a bigger question:  You buy a 7D for $1600, get a VF for $350 or an EVF for $775, or spend another $330 for a audio box , get a AJA HDMI to HDSDI box for $500,  and then some kind of $800 bracket to hold all this stuff.

Now, you have this Rube Goldberg device with all this crap hanging off of it and for less than $1000 bucks more you can get a Panasonic AF-100.

All those pieces are linked back to B&H and here's the link to the Zacuto EVF if you haven't seen it:  http://www.zacuto.com/zfinderevf

It solves the problem of the non-tilting VF.