I really like it. In fact I hooked mine on before I'd even powered up the GH2.

Sure it shows up the poor resolution of the LCD, but that's to be expected. It helps with focusing, and it adds another point of contact for handheld shots.

Aesthetically it makes your kit look more professional. That is actually important as many, many people don't "get" the idea of using a DSLR on a shoot. Shove one of these on, the GH2 looks less like a DSLR and more like a camcorder.

You can never underestimate the importance of looking professional when working with new clients.

@ipcmlr thanks those were actually very helpful. The pixels didn't look as magnified as I had feared. thanks

ok thanks for the feedback feha

thanks Jules, That is what I thought but the rave reviews seemed like a real night and day difference for focusing. I'd wondered if magnifying the pixels would make it look much worse and be even more distracting.

I am interested in this Loupe but really have to see it first hand to see if the low res LCD magnified bugs me or not.

Anyone that has one (Feha?) would it be possible to peek inside the eye piece and see what the screen looks like?

My main purpose for using this would be focus. I guess I might just have to take a leap before the deal is over (if it isn't already).

I bought a used one for really cheap on eBay. It was broken in two places (diopter handle, and a crack near the LCD housing). Even so, I love it. It works great, and gives my rig a much more professional appearance. It's hard to overstate how important that factor is in commercial work, when working with a small camera like the GH2.

@Grue, the loupe can't replace in anyway the quality you get with EVF, it can not replace the external ones either. Using this I did not had problems while focusing, however the LCD dots are bigger due to optical enlarging, so this is a good alternative but not a replacement of high quality monitor or quality EVF. This is much better than "bare" lcd and high quality made compared to other cheaper loupes.

I bought one, then returned it and got a DP6 (which I love) but am no thinking about buying it again. The downside of a monitor for the gh2 is that it won't monitor 720p60, nor ETC mode. So while the DP6 looks great and is small enough to use on my rig (or for other purposes... use it frequently when car mounting the gh2 but want to still see what I'm shooting), I may now order a loupe again. Be forewarned though, putting it one is not going give you anything close to the experience of a viewfinder on even a $5K camera like the fs100 -- you'll really, really see how poor the resolution is on our Electronic Viewfinder. That said, you will be able to focus. I do a lot of two camera interviews with mf primes and nature photography so I'll probably use the loupe to focus on etc with the 100-300 as well as focusing the second camera, while using the monitor for everything else.

Sorry, but from what world is it ?

And it auto focuses while rolling?? My 17mm pancake doesn't do that, nor does my leicasonic 14-50, nor the crappy stock 14-42 that I sold. Is it only that lens?

@airboxlights, :-) top secret !!! I used my second camera GF2 (also hacked) in auto focus mode , the lens 14mm pancake ...

@feha thanks, it's what I was thinking

@Vitaliy_Kiselev I would like both :) It doesn't seem too hard to make small adjustment to their GH version to be able to do it. I'm afraid @feha is right about sales policy, I think they are smart enough to understand a dual mode version would be nice, but if you have some contact with them, maybe you can ask if they think about an updated version that will do both ?