 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Roselher. I want to talk today about using camcorders If like me you wear spectacles you use glasses So obviously you can use a camcorder, but there's a couple of things to know So the one I'm the camcorder. I'm using I picked this up a few weeks ago. It's the Canon XA40 Professional camcorder. So this is a pretty typical camcorder in that it has a classic viewfinder This is called an OLED viewfinder not OLCD OLED and this guy pops out like this And you've also got your flip out LCD to screen LCD screen that can be very usefully inverted So if you're actually recording yourself and when you turn it around it's actually changes rotation, which is really useful as well So if you're trying to use this to vlog which can be done And you can just look straight into the screen and see yourself. So if you are wearing spectacles Obviously looking through the LCD screen is no problem But one thing a couple of things to know about firstly if you're in bright weather It can be very difficult to see the LCD screen now typically camcorders do have in the settings menu a setting for Adjusting the backlight brightness of the LCD screen so you can crank that up to maximum if you're shooting in bright conditions The second thing you can use is one of these a sunscreen. So these guys literally This is a velcro thing. I picked up from Amazon for about 15 bucks And what this guy does is it just wraps around you literally wrap it around the LCD screen and then Just connect the velcro This is not done very well, but just to kind of demonstrate the idea and now you've got yourself a little tunnel Through which if it's really bright outside, you can look into that and you'll be able to see the screen much easier Now the OLED viewfinder is the thing I really wanted to talk about So this is this guy that just pops out You pull it out and it can be toggled up to locks off at about 45 degrees So you can look into it like this or you can look into it when it's on the level like this Now, yeah, you do look a little bit ridiculous Now you might be wondering how does this work with glasses? So to take this camcorder as an example I'm gonna turn it on and gonna open the lens hood and then going to look through the screen here You need to turn off the LCD So if you have glasses, you're gonna be pressing up against your the glasses of your glasses against the glass of this It's not the most comfortable. So I would say if you wear contact lenses I used to wear contacts for many years and then my eyes just kind of stopped being able to tolerate them But it's more comfortable, but it definitely can be done It's just, you know, your glasses are gonna be pushing up against the rubber. You might find that a little bit uncomfortable But another really important thing to note is that at least on this camcorder the Canon XA40 There is this little flip switch here and what this does is adjust the diopter So if you wear glasses or contacts, you probably come across this word diopter before basically it's the strength of the The power of the lens, right? So you have two options one you can use a whisk glasses and for that I didn't adjust the diopter at all So in other words, it's not there. It's it's the lens is just a tunnel basically, right? There's no magnification. There's no power in the lens. What I can do is this if I take off my glasses Wow, I'm really really blind. I'm like minus seven point five So if I look into the viewfinder now Everything is super super blurry. But what I can do is adjust the diopter And there we go. And now when I adjusted it fully, so I guess I am as Myopic as can be that I have to adjust it all the way But that basically brings power to the lens of the OLED viewfinder So that's an option as well So you can do one of two things and it's probably best because now that I have my glasses back on The viewfinder looks all wrong because I've said it for myself not wearing glasses So it's probably better to just decide what works for you set the diopter accordingly and on my camera camcorder the Canon XA40 It's literally just a switch here. It's super easy to move with one finger So set it up accordingly and then you'll be good to go So it's a question of whether you want to pop your glasses back on and back off when you're using the viewfinder Or whether you just want to configure it so that it's good to go with your glasses on I'd probably go for the latter and as I was using it for a really long period of time in which case The pushing my glasses up against my face might become a bit uncomfortable So you can definitely use a camcorder a camcorder if you are be speckled like myself A couple of things that might be useful is if you have a diopter switch On your OLED lens filter OLED viewfinder and in general those are very useful things If your camcorder just has an LCD screen and you live somewhere sunny I live in Israel, so it's really sunny for two-thirds of the year It's really worth picking up one of these little sun visor hoods You just need to know the width of your LCD screen and then find one either for your camcorder or that'll work for For that width and then it just basically creates a little tunnel for you that you can look into And it kind of replicates the job of the viewfinder as such But just using a little bit of gear that you can just fold away and put back in your camera bag when you're done with it Hope that video was useful and if you'd like to get more videos from me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel