Rear View Mirror Night Driving Mode

These radios are amazing. Installed in my Jeep above my rear view mirror and I am stoked about it. It’s small enough to not be in the way but is great for communicating with fellow Jeep’s. I used the ghost antenna so that it didn’t get wiped out by limbs on the trail. I’m thinking of purchasing the 6db antenna to help increase my range. I feel you can’t go wrong with this radio! Will be purchasing another for my sons Jeep.

Compact, easy to use, and the red light is great during night driving.

Fine for its intended (limited) use, but a little too dark for night-time driving.

Purchased for my Arri MMB2 matte box as the useless Arri nuns nickers were driving me crazy. Fits perfectly into 114mm rear donut & although my 95mm primes are a bit tight it works. Perhaps they could make another size, say an 85mm rear..... Such a simple piece of kit yet so expensive for what it it. Please manufacture something like this, Small Rig, Tilta, Movecam & the likes....

In the mid-1980s I bought a Nikon 7.5mm f5.6 circular fisheye. Being an older design (1966) its rear elements protruded into the mirror box. Fortunately my F3 had a hard physical mirror lockup. The external viewfinder for this lens attached to the camera on the original Nikon F/F2’s proprietary flash shoe. I was able to buy an AS-3 flash adapter for the F3. With the F3s mirror locked up I also had to use an hand-held light meter. With amazing depth of foield focusing was never an issue. The old zoom lens had six filters on a wheel. One was a skylight and the other five were strongly colored for B&W film. While I liked the circular results, using the lens was a hassle. I often had my shoes or forehead in the picture. On a sunny day, my images suffered from solar flares. My new Nikon 8-15mm AF-S fisheye has none of those old problems. It fits on my DSLRs without any problem. It doesn’t need an external finder or separate light meter. At the 8mm setting (and lens hood off) I get a circular image very much like the vintage fisheye. The new lens is faster and focusable. Like my 14mm f2.8 Nikkor, this zoom uses gel filters inserted in the rear of the lens. I really don’t like this arrangement. This fisheye is similar in weight and size to the 14mm lens. I am also not fond of the electronic aperture control first seen on G lenses. Without an aperture ring one cannot use this zoom on older cameras. At the longer end of the zoom range (12-15mm) the image fills the (FX) frame and lens hood stays out of the way. This image is similar to my inexpensive Bower (Samyang?) 8mm fisheye with its fixed lens hood (and DX coverage). So far I haven’t used my new lens much but I think I will like it.

I use the wireless remote to trigger my D7000 when on a tripod and using the mirror up mode of the camera. Most recently this involved taking pictures of the moon. The remote works excellent for that and is very inexpensive

I really enjoy this lens. I am new to the dslr/mirror less world and it's great that it is manual. It will make me need to learn how to take pictures in manual mode instead of auto. The pictures that I have taken have a lot more depth than my kit lens. I would definitely recommend this lens.

Upon arrival i set it up. It was super easy to do so. Prior to the TMP 50 I used a mirror attached to my tripod with a mount that allowed my iPhone to be in front and the mirror in the back - with this the mirror was pointless. To frame up I used my apple watch so for folks who don't have this it will be manual. Secondly my iPhone mount for my iPhone 7 plus sat back a bit it seems, such that it would capture the corners of the teleprompter frame. To fix this i purchased an Arca Swiss Mount iPhone Tripod adapter which positioned the iPhone closer to the glass. I use an iPhone SE (1st gen) and Prompt Smart Pro in portrait mode since the landscape mode required me to pick it up and the camera would pick up my eye movements - in portrait mode it is centered on my iPhone 7's camera. All this to say I am SUPER happy with it and recommend it.

This remote is tiny, but it works quite well. I use it in the mirror up mode for a lot of my shooting, and it's great to have a wireless control option without having a wireless receiver dongle on one side of your camera.

I received this as a gift a few days ago, that night the wife and I were driving and I had brought this along to show my friend, but had to use it after getting a flat tire. While I have a handheld flashlight in the car, this made tire changing a LOT easier, having both hands free to work with. No more holding a regular flashlight in my mouth to light what I need to see! This one is replacing it and I'm getting another for her car and one more for hunting use. Wish I had gotten one of these years ago.