Articulating screen
An articulating screen is a liquid-crystal display (LCD) which is not fixed, but rather can be repositioned using a hinge or pivot. The articulating screen is known under different other names such as flip-out screen, flip screen, adjustable screen, articulated screen, or hinged screen. According to the way it moves, there are three main types:
- The LCD moves around one axis, so that it only tilts. It is called tilting screen or tiltable screen.
- The LCD moves around two axes which are at a right angle to each other, so that the screen both tilts and swivels. This type is called swivel screen. Other names for this type are vari-angle screen, fully articulated screen, fully articulating screen, rotating screen, multi-angle screen, variable angle screen, flip-out-and-twist screen, twist-and-tilt screen
- The LCD moves into a variety of angles; it tilts horizontally and vertically and also rotates to a certain extend while staying aligned with the lens axis. It still can not be turned all the way up, down or to the side to be seen from the front of the camera for self-portraits. This type of articulating screen is called cross-tilt screen, flexible-tilt screen or flex-tilt screen.
Articulating screens are used in a variety of electronic devices such as laptops, camcorders, digital cameras, desk phones, mobile phones, DVD players and others; also TV screens and computer monitors can be articulating screens.
This article focuses on digital photography, where an articulating screen allows convenient or unobtrusive shooting from various perspectives.
Digital cameras with a tilting screen
The tilting screens of camera models marked with an asterisk (*) here below can be tilted by 180 degrees or close to it so that they may be used to take self portraits more easily.
Canon
- PowerShot N (2013)
- PowerShot N Facebook ready (2013)
- PowerShot N100 (2014)
- PowerShot G1X Mark II(*) (2014)
- PowerShot G7X(*) (2014)
- PowerShot N2(*) (2015)
- EOS M3(*) (2015)
- XC10 (2015)
- PowerShot G3X(*) (2015)
- EOS M10(*) (2015)
- PowerShot G7 X Mark II(*) (2016)
- EOS M5(*) (2016)
Casio
- Exilim EX-ZR1000(*) (2012)
- Exilim EX-ZR1100/Exilim EX-ZR1200(*) (2013)
- Exilim EX-10(*) (2013)
- Exilim EX-100(*) (2014)
- Exilim EX-ZR1300/Exilim EX-ZR1500(*) (2014)
- Exilim EX-ZR50(*) (2014)
- Exilim EX-FC500S(*) (2014)
- Exilim EX-ZR1600 / Exilim EX-ZR2000(*) (2015)
- Exilim EX-ZR3000 / Exilim EX-ZR3500(*) (2015)
- Exilim EX-ZR60(*) (2015)
Fujifilm
- FinePix S9000 Zoom/FinePix S9500 (2005)
- FinePix S9100/FinePix S9600 (2006)
- FinePix S100fs (2008)
- FinePix HS10/FinePix HS11 (2010)
- FinePix HS20 EXR/FinePix HS22 EXR (2011)
- X-S1 (2011)
- FinePix HS30 EXR (2012)
- FinePix SL1000 (2013)
- FinePix HS35 EXR (2013)
- X-M1 (2013)
- X-A1 (2013)
- X-T1 (2014)
- X30 (2014)
- X-A2(*) (2015)
- X-T10 (2015)
- X-T1 IR (2015)
- X70(*) (2016)
- X-T2 (2016)
- X-A3(*) (2016)
- X-A10(*) (2016)
JVC
- GC-PX10[1](*) (2011)
Kodak
- Pixpro S-1 (2014)
Konica Minolta
- DiMAGE A2 (2004)
Lytro
- Illium (2014)
Medion
- Life P44034 (MD 86934)(*) (2014)
Minolta
- DiMAGE A1 (2003)
Nikon
- Coolpix P90 (2009)
- Coolpix P100 (2010)
- Coolpix P500 (2011)
- Coolpix P7100 (2011)
- Coolpix P510 (2012)
- Coolpix L830 (2014)
- 1 V3 (2014)
- D750 (2014)
- Coolpix L840 (2015)
- 1 J5(*) (2015)
- D500 (2016)
- DL18-50 (*) (2016)
- DL24-85 (*) (2016)
- Coolpix A900 (*) (2016)
- Coolpix B500 (2016)
Olympus
- E-10 (2000)
- E-20 (2001)
- C-5050 Zoom (2002)
- C-8080 Wide Zoom (2004)
- E-330/EVOLT E-330 (2006)
- PEN E-PL3 (2011)
- OM-D E-M5 (2012)
- PEN E-PL5(*) (2012)
- XZ-2 iHS (2012)
- PEN E-PL6(*) (2013)
- PEN E-P5 (2013)
- OM-D E-M1 (2013)
- Stylus 1 (2013)
- Stylus TG-850(*) (2014)
- OM-D E-M10 (2014)
- PEN E-PL7(*) (2014)
- Stylus 1s (2014)
- Stylus TG-860(*) (2015)
- OM-D E-M10 II (2015)
- Stylus Tough TG-870(*) (2016)
- TG-Tracker (2016)
- PEN E-PL8(*) (2016)
Panasonic
- Lumix DMC-GF6(*) (2013)
- Lumix DMC-GX7 (2013)
- Lumix DMC-ZS35/Lumix DMC-TZ55/Lumix DMC-TZ56(*) (2014)
- Lumix DMC-SZ10(*) (2015)
- Lumix DMC-ZS45/Lumix DMC-TZ57/Lumix DMC-TZ58(*) (2015)
- Lumix DMC-GF7(*) (2015)
- Lumix DMC-GF8(*) (2016)
- Lumix DMC-GX85/Lumix DMC-GX80 (2016)
- Lumix DMC-LX10/LX15(*) (2016)
Pentax
Praktica
- Luxmedia 18-Z36C (2012)
Rollei
- Powerflex 360 (2012)
- Powerflex 850(*) (2014)
Samsung
Sony
- Cyber-shot DSC-H9 (2007)
- Alpha DSLR-A300 (2008)
- Alpha DSLR-A350 (2008)
- Cyber-shot DSC-H50 (2008)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 (2009)
- Alpha DSLR-A330 (2009)
- Alpha DSLR-A380 (2009)
- Alpha DSLR-A500 (2009)
- Alpha DSLR-A550 (2009)
- Alpha NEX-3 (2010)
- Alpha NEX-5 (2010)
- Alpha DSLR-A390 (2010)
- Alpha DSLR-A560 (2010)
- Alpha DSLR-A580 (2010)
- Alpha NEX-C3 (2011)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX100V (2011)
- Alpha NEX-7 (2011)
- Alpha NEX-5N (2011)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V (2012)
- Alpha NEX-F3(*) (2012)
- SLT-A37 (2012)
- Alpha NEX-5R(*) (2012)
- Alpha NEX-6 (2012)
- Alpha NEX-3N(*) (2013)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 (2013)
- Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II (2013)
- Alpha NEX-5T(*) (2013)
- α7 (2013)
- α7R (2013)
- Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 (2013)
- α5000(*) (2014)
- α6000 (2014)
- α7S (2014)
- Cyber-shot DSC RX100 III(*) (2014)
- α5100(*) (2014)
- α7 II (2014)
- Cyber-shot DSC-WX500(*) (2015)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX90(*) (2015)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX90V(*) (2015)
- α7R II (2015)
- Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 II (2015)
- Cyber-shot RX100 IV(*) (2015)
- RX1R II (2015)
- SLT-A68 (2015)
- α6300 (2016)
- Cyber-shot DSC-HX80(*) (2016)
- Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 III (2016)
- α6500 (2016)
- Cyber-shot RX100 V(*) (2016)
Vivikai
- DC-1550(*) (2011)
Vivitar (ViviCam iTwist series)
- 5028(*) (2010)
- X018(*) (2010)
- 7028(*) (2010)
- X028(*) (2010)
- T126(*) (2011)
- F129(*) (2011)
- F536(*) (2011)
- T028(*) (2012)
- X014(*) (2012)
- T022(*) (2012)
- F124(*) (2012)
Digital cameras with a swivel screen
BenQ
- G1 (2012)
Canon
- PowerShot Pro70 (1998)
- PowerShot G1 (2000)
- PowerShot Pro90 IS (2001)
- PowerShot G2 (2001)
- PowerShot G3 (2002)
- PowerShot G5 (2003)
- PowerShot A80 (2003)
- PowerShot S1 IS (2004)
- PowerShot Pro1 (2004)
- PowerShot G6 (2004)
- PowerShot A95 (2004)
- PowerShot S2 IS (2005)
- PowerShot A610 (2005)
- PowerShot A620 (2005)
- Powershot S3 IS (2006)
- PowerShot A630 (2006)
- PowerShot A640 (2006)
- PowerShot TX1 (2007)
- PowerShot S5 IS (2007)
- PowerShot A650 IS (2007)
- PowerShot SX1 IS (2008)
- PowerShot SX10 IS (2008)
- PowerShot SX20 IS (2009)
- PowerShot G11 (2009)
- EOS 60D (2010)
- PowerShot G12 (2010)
- PowerShot SX30 IS (2010)
- EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D (2011)
- PowerShot SX40 HS (2011)
- PowerShot G1X (2012)
- EOS 60Da (2012)
- EOS Rebel T4i/EOS 650D (2012)
- PowerShot SX50 HS (2012)
- EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D (2013)
- EOS 70D (2013)
- PowerShot SX60 HS (2014)
- EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D (2015)
- EOS Rebel T6s/EOS 760D (2015)
- PowerShot G5X (2015)
- EOS 80D (2016)
Casio
- EX-P505 (2005)
- Exilim TRYX/EX-TR100 (2011)
- EX-TR150 (2012)
- EX-TR200 (2012)
- EX-TR10 (2013)
- EX-TR15 (2013)
- EX-TR35 (2014)
- EX-TR50/EX-TR500 (2014)
Fujifilm
- FinePix HS50 EXR (2013)
- FinePix S1 (2014)
Kodak
- EasyShare-One (2005)
- Pixpro AZ651 (2014)
Konica Minolta
- DiMAGE A200 (2004)
Leica
- V-Lux 2 (2010)
- V-Lux 3 (2011)
- V-Lux 4 (2012)
- V-Lux Typ 114 (2014)
Nikon
- Coolpix 5000 (2001)
- Coolpix 5700 (2002)
- Coolpix 5400 (2003)
- Coolpix 8700 (2004)
- Coolpix 8400 (2004)
- Coolpix 8800 (2004)
- D5000 (2009)
- D5100 (2011)
- Coolpix P7700 (2012)
- D5200 (2012)
- Coolpix P520 (2013)
- Coolpix S6600 (2013)
- Coolpix P7800 (2013)
- D5300 (2013)
- Coolpix P600 (2014)
- Coolpix S6900 (2014)
- D5500 (2015)
- Coolpix P610 (2015)
- Coolpix S9900 (2015)
- Coolpix P900 (2015)
- DL24-500 (2016)
- Coolpix B700 (2016)
Olympus
- C-5060 WideZoom (2003)
- C-7070 WideZoom (2005)
- E-3 (2007)
- E-30 (2008)
- E-620 (2009)
- E-600 (2009)
- E-5 (2010)
- OM-D E-M5 II (2015)
- PEN-F (2016)
- OM-D E-M1 II (2016)
Panasonic
- Lumix DMC-FZ30 (2005)
- Lumix DMC-FZ50 (2006)
- Lumix DMC-L10 (2007)
- Lumix DMC-G1 (2008)
- Lumix DMC-GH1 (2009)
- Lumix DMC-G2 (2010)
- Lumix DMC-FZ100 (2010)
- Lumix DMC-GH2 (2010)
- Lumix DMC-G3 (2011)
- Lumix DMC-FZ150 (2011)
- Lumix DMC-G5 (2012)
- Lumix DMC-FZ60/FZ62 (2012)
- Lumix DMC-FZ200 (2012)
- Lumix DMC-GH3 (2012)
- Lumix DMC-G6 (2013)
- Lumix DMC-GH4 (2014)
- Lumix DMC-FZ1000 (2014)
- Lumix DMC-G7/Lumix DMC-G70 (2015)
- Lumix DMC-FZ300 (2015)
- Lumix DMC-GX8 (2015)
- Lumix DMC-FZ2500/FZ2000 (2016)
- Lumix DMC-G80/G81/G85 (2016)
Pentax
- Optio 750Z (2004)
- K-S2 (2015)
- K-70 (2016)
Protax
- DC600 (2010)
- D3000 (2013)
Samsung
Sony
- Cyber-shot DSC-R1 (2005)
- SLT-A55 (2010)
- SLT-A33 (2010)
- SLT-A65 (2011)
- SLT-A77 (2011)
- SLT-A57 (2012)
- SLT-A99 (2012)
- SLT-A58 (2013)
- SLT-A77 II (2014)
- Sony SLT-A99 II (2016)
Vivikai
- DC600 (2010)
Digital cameras with a cross-tilt screen
Pentax
- K-1 (2016)
Accessories
Aftermarket products are available which can be fitted to static screen cameras. These reflect the screen image, or capture and duplicate the image.[2][3][4]
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Articulating camera screens. |
- Swivel lens
- Waist-level finder — film camera optical focusing screen viewed from above
References
- ↑ http://camcorder.jvc.com/product.jsp?pathId=8
- ↑ http://www.adi-digital.com/Zigview/Zigview%20S2/Zigview%20S2%20Page.htm
- ↑ http://flipbac.com/angle-viewfinder-about.htm
- ↑ http://www.aputure.com/blog/2011/12/20/gigtube-wireless-2-live-view-lcd-remote-viewfinder-released/