Using the CineMate is pretty straight forward. Your camera sits on a tripod and you zoom in on the aeriel image that appears in the condenser lens. There is no screen. The lens of the projector and the lens of the camera combined with the CineMate's condenser lens creates one gigantic lens that provides a microscopic view of the surface of the film. So you can see this practice as shooting off a magnified view of the gate or that you are projecting an image directly onto the CCD of your camera. It's the same thing. Your camera must have the ability to lock the shutter speed to 1/60th of a second for NTSC or 1/50th of a second for PAL or you will get flicker.