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Advantages: Easy to Use
Disadvantages: Tedious installation

Canon EC-D Laser Matte with Grid Focusing Screen for EOS-1/1N/1V, EOS-3, D2000 & 1D Cameras Compatible with all EF lenses. When used with the TS-E Lens, it is suitable for architectural photography and for matching alignment with other photos. Focusing grid is very helpful in ensuring verticals stay vertical in the shots. Wish that Canon included it with every camera. Installation requires that you remove the body cap or lens and risk getting dirt ...
...working carefully and cautiously. If not satisfied, customer may return merchandise for a full credit (excluding shipping charges) within 14 days. Items must be in original, undamaged manufacturer's packaging. Grid screens are great for helping to keep the horizon level as well as set the proportions of an image to fit within a 4x5 format. ... Read review

Advantages: Small size
Disadvantages: only one socket

Flash photography has been in the business for years. The technology keeps coming and going. As for this one accessory, it features the adaptation from a normal hot shoe flash to a cable trigger type for most studio lighting available. This accessory comes in handy when you have a SLR body that doesn't have any studio flash trigger cable socket. It helps bridge those needs to provide a prompt and non disturbed flash trigger compared to a slave using ...
...downpoint in using cable as the trigger, you will have a web of cables hanging around your studio which can cause people to trample over. This can be very dangerous and costly, especially if you have a high end equipment and or properties on your studio. I recommend to buy a wireless slave trigger with radio or infrared function that also incorporates a different channel feature to exclude your flash system from auto triggering caused by other system ... Read review

Advantages: 90 degree angle of view
Disadvantages: sometimes dizzying to look into

...made especially for use in Nikon SLR bodies. A normal viewfinder in SLR cameras is fixed to the top point of the camera, allowing a limited viewing or composing angle for photographers. That's where this baby comes in handy. It features a 90 degree angle view, enabling us to look at the viewfinder in a 90 degree bank. This especially useful if you want to exaggerate your angle of view to achieve an unique result. Such example was taking an image ... Read review

Advantages: check it urself
Disadvantages: no

This high-quality NTSC universal camera projects a mirror-image (so it's ideal for depicting what you would normally don't see in a rear-view mirror). The ND-BC2 can be hooked up to any of Pioneer's systems with a rear camera input. Its compact size allows for installation in virtually any location I bought this camera online. The camera was not what was in the description. I wanted to return it, but all of my e-mails went unanswered. When I finally ... Read review

Advantages: to use ring type accessories on a slot in viewfinder type cameras
Disadvantages: easily broken

This is an eyepiece adapter to fit a ring type eyepiece connector to a slot-in type eyepiece socket. A slot in socket can be found in pro-sumer D-SLR cameras such as D100, D80, D70, etc. While ring type socket is found on the one digit D-SLR cameras such as D1, D2 and D3. This adapter is to bridge the need to put a ring-type accessories or eyepiece accessories to a slot-in type socket. This includes the DR-4 or right angle viewfinder which is originally ...
...a slot in type socket cameras. It was made from plastic materials, so it's not that durable and strong. I have broken around two of these adapter, which cost me quite some money. A good care must be taken to take off and on these thing from the camera body since it has two small fragile plastic locks on the left and right side. You must took it off in a synchronized move, pull on both side at once, minimizing the risk of breaking one side. ... Read review