One of my pet peeves with some compact cameras is that they often skip the viewfinder entirely. But one photographer and YouTuber decided to not only fix the missing viewfinder on his camera, but add retro style in the process. James Warner recently shared how he built a waist-level hot shoe viewfinder with about $10 worth of materials (about £8 / AU$16).
Add-on waist-level viewfinders exist, but they cost around $50 / £40 / AU$80 and are only designed to work with specific focal lengths. Warner, who runs the YouTube channel Snappiness, decided to try to build his own, both to add a viewfinder to his Ricoh GR series compact camera and to learn how optical viewfinders work for a larger project building his own camera.
