Willie jimenez
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2025
a bit disappointing to be honest first. I'm wasn't sure if the rest of the reviews are real.I was wonder why was the glass so foggy. I was expecting a clear see through object. theres an almost unnoticeable plastic film on one side. and if it wasn't for someone here that pointed it out. I wouldn't have seen it. once removed all my worried was gone.this isn't stated anywhere on this site of on the box. but remove the plastic which makes it foggy. and your good to good.
Erin
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2025
These are kinda cool little composition acrylic viewfinders that are about the size of a credit card, and about twice as thick. Come with 3 cards, one Fibonacci, a thirds grid, and triangle. Acrylic is sturdy and the grids are printed/painted on in white on the front. There’s a protective film on the back of each to remove, which were hard to get started but easy one you got a corner lifted. Two of mine have a sharp lip at the corner. It’s like the height was misaligned on one side. I’m going to try to file that down a bit to see if it helps.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2025
Though I see mostly photographers commenting, this is a cool little set for the art kit - never knew something like this existed till I saw it here. Not sure if I'm 100% using them correctly, but I sort of compare them to the block technique of drawing applied to still life, scenery etc. (whatever you might be sketching). Kind of helps you to see everything in relation to everything else (mainly the card with the square). Very helpful (even if I'm not totally using them correctly), and very portable.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2025
I think this is a cool way to explore mathematical ratios in art and the world around us by providing line-of-sight perspective and aspect ratio. Artists of all ages can play with these and look around to discover unique perspectives based on golden-ratio, and other interesting concepts...
Anon
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2025
This is more durable than I expected. They're on nice thick acrylic sheets with a frosted, semi-translucent guideline on it. It makes it easy to see your compositions through the lens, without too much distraction. It is a good deal for the money seeing how sturdy they are and the variety of compositions you get in the pack. This would be a great gift not only for a photographer, but also for any artist, painter, graphic designer, or anyone going into art school. There are portable, but a little too thick to just stick in a wallet unless you just keep one of them at a time.
luxlight
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2025
I have never seen a product like this before and I thought it seemed like a fun addition to creative photography supplies. I was surprised by the size, as they are smaller than I expected. I’m sure this could have been known in advance if I had just reviewed the advert thoroughly. It makes sense that they are small because they are to be used modifying a relatively small lens of a camera, but even so. These are tremendously manageable in terms of holding in one hand and manipulating easily. Lightweight and seemingly sturdy enough for the intended task. The box in which they came was a little cheap looking and slightly disappointing if purchased as a gift but product itself is just as promised.
Greg B
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2025
These small clear plastic cards can be a wonderful aid to photographic composition. They don't attach to your camera's view screen but you can easily hold them over the screen and see how the composition of your image matches up to the different classic image constructions. Each represents a different compositional theory and can give you ideas for framing or composing your image. They are best used with a tripod so that you can make more precise adjustments to your camera's positioning and thereby align your final image. I found them to be inspirational in that I captured an image and then cycled through the different "cards" to see how each matched up to my composition. Then I could adjust the composition to better fit one of the cards and create the final image. It often made me "see" the image differently than I had before using the "cards". Super interesting and easy way to inspire a photographer to see the scene before them in a different way and better develop their composition. Recommended!
T H
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2025
These cards are very lightweight and small enough to be carried in a pocket at all times when I have my camera with me. The pattern printed on them is clear and easy to keep in view while looking through the cards. They come with a protective film attached on their surfaces, need to peel off from both sides and then they are transparent. The only instructions these come with are printed on the box, and there’s not much apart from the statement that these should be kept away from sun exposure - probably the acrylic material’s transparency degrades with extended exposure to natural light.I got these cards as a means of igniting ideas while I contemplate taking a picture, to help me decide upon how I would frame into the picture what I see. These cards are for a different stage in composing the shot than the camera’s built-in grid: I am looking to align into a pattern the scene before using the camera viewfinder, so that I have a good idea of what I want to achieve before working the camera’s controls.There is something about these proportions that makes ordering the elements in an image around these patterns attractive to the eye before the rational part of the brain kicks in. But photography, as an art, is both about applying rules and about infringing rules to create new aesthetics. I would not obsess about each shot obeying these patterns, sometimes the composition is appealing by its own norms, and sometimes the non-appealing is the appeal, it gets the idea across. Thus I would say these cards are helpful and will pay dividends by imprinting good-chance-of-success formulas into your image composition, but not really a necessity, and definitely not something to let constrain dogmatically your own intuition.