{"id":36020,"date":"2016-04-13T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/?p=36020"},"modified":"2017-01-20T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:25:57","slug":"graticaleye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/graticaleye\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the Zacuto Gratical Eye EVF"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ethics statement:<\/strong> I have been good friends with Steve Weiss and Zacuto for about 8 years and a website affiliate of theirs for about 7. So naturally I am biased to a degree but I wouldn’t feature a product of theirs if I didn’t rate it or wouldn’t use it myself. They supplied me the new Gratical Eye for a week to try out. If you do buy one through my affiliate link on this page I get a small referral percentage<\/a>, as this is the case I recommend checking other reviews before purchasing in case you think I am not being objective (which I always am!)<\/p>\n

For more details about my ethics check out my full statement here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Zacuto Gratical is the best EVF on the market in my opinion. I have been using it for 18 months on my F55 and FS7 and it is exceptional. Every doubter of it has changed their mind when they look through it. It is crystal clear, pin sharp, has all the scopes you could need without obscuring the image. It has a 4:3 micro oled panel that uses 16:9 for the camera with the bottom section for the scopes.<\/p>\n

Whilst the price for the Gratical HD might seem high to some compared to many propriety EVFs out there (like my Sony OLED for the F55) it is much cheaper and enormously better! This is an EVF that will work on just about any camera out there. It is pretty much future proofed as long as HDMI \/ SDI remain standards on video cameras.<\/p>\n

The panel is 720p but it is absolutely all you need. You don’t need a 4K oled panel and 1080p makes no different on the micro led.\u00a0It has\u00a02687.21 PPI\/\u00a05.4 million pixels with\u00a016.7 million colours. It is this that makes the difference, you don’t see any pixels when looking through the magnifying eye piece. It’s magnificent.<\/p>\n

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