Diy Camera Monitor Hood
Step 4 enjoy.
Diy camera monitor hood. Place 1 or 2 pieces of velcro on the l shaped bar which will be placed as seen in below pictures. You can buy a new one for pretty cheap around 8 above up to 100 for fancier models with optical viewfinders or you can make your own from discarded hotel keys gift cards plastic cards and even toy binoculars. The top part should be the length of your monitor. The other side of the velcro strip will stick the sides of the monitor.
Now pill off the back of the velcro pieces you placed on the board and place the board on the monitor. If you use a monitor calibrator like a datacolor spyder or colormunki you will need to cut out a hole right in the center of the edge 8. If you monitor is exceptionally long or high use four pieces. Given recent upgrades in my printing capabilties i decided to treat myself to a new monitor as well.
When you cut and tape the velcro do not separate the hook and loop sides. After some research i selected a dell u2413 a sub 500 backlit ips with wide gamut coverage 99 adobe rgb 100 srgb. Cutting out the parts take out your framing square and your box cutter and cut out. Need to keep the glare off your screen so you can get get your work done.