I want to solve two problems. One is that when my hand is on my specimen, my monitor is 4 feet away. More aggravating is that my camera is turned 90 degrees from my monitor orientation. So when I move the specimen right, it moves up on the screen and so forth.
The distance between my current monitor location and the axis of my photographic setup is 48 inches.
A monitor arm (mounted to the wall) would allow me to solve both the distance issue and to spin the monitor from landscape to portrait orientation.
A significant extra benefit is that getting the monitor up off the desk suddenly makes a bunch of desk space available.
Two notes. One is that I need the monitor image to be rotated counterclockwise (to the left). It is important to verify that the monitor stand allows this if a stand allows only a 90 degree rotation.
The other note is that the Canon EOS utility allows the live view image to be rotated by 90 degrees either clockwise or counterclockwise. It can also be expanded to full screen.
Lightroom live view also has a rotation button (and you can go round and round through all 4 possible orientations). It can also be expanded to full screen and if anything makes even better use of screen real estate.
Given the ability to rotate the image via software makes the ability to rotate the screen between landscape and portrait even less important.
The Alex Lee review shows him rotating it 90 degrees clockwise to landscape, but the Vesa mounting being square gives you two choices about how to start that off.
This seems nice and solid. I'm not sure what I would have gotten if I had bought one of the less expensive arms, but the Amazon Basics arm was a good choice.
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