Does anyone use "live view" for dslr?

[doodah]

Sorry for digging up an old thread, for not letting it go, for being such a pain in the a**.

But you'll find some well respected landscape photographers (e.g. gdanmitchell) who totally use live view for their landscape shots: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/889786/0

As for those ignorant clowns (mind you, SENIOR members of this site... and non-Canon users) who laughed at me: how does the crow taste now? Honestly I still cannot understand how some of you can be so ignorant about the technology you have in your hands. Pfffft...

 

[sabee]

Sorry for digging up an old thread, for not letting it go, for being such a pain in the a**.

But you'll find some well respected landscape photographers (e.g. gdanmitchell) who totally use live view for their landscape shots: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/889786/0

As for those ignorant clowns (mind you, SENIOR members of this site... and non-Canon users) who laughed at me: how does the crow taste now? Honestly I still cannot understand how some of you can be so ignorant about the technology you have in your hands. Pfffft...

I don't see how calling them ignorant makes you any better than them... They obviously know about live view but for one reason or another chose not to use it. Why does it matter how somebody shoots or what somebody thinks about a situation or technique. Just gave it a rest and move on.

 

[chiangkxv]

My A700 dun have live view. but i'm happy with it. LV is good to have though..

 

[doodah]

I don't see how calling them ignorant makes you any better than them... They obviously know about live view but for one reason or another chose not to use it. Why does it matter how somebody shoots or what somebody thinks about a situation or technique. Just gave it a rest and move on.

If they had not derided others who had use for it, I would not have cared one bit. Instead, they chose to make fun of others... and senior members who think they know more than others... :sticktong

 

[timo]

Sorry for digging up an old thread, for not letting it go, for being such a pain in the a**.

But you'll find some well respected landscape photographers (e.g. gdanmitchell) who totally use live view for their landscape shots: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/889786/0

As for those ignorant clowns (mind you, SENIOR members of this site... and non-Canon users) who laughed at me: how does the crow taste now? Honestly I still cannot understand how some of you can be so ignorant about the technology you have in your hands. Pfffft...

Just happened to see this. If I can contribute a different viewpoint, I have a Pentax DSLR, which has the advantage of being compatible with Pentax lenses going back 30-40 years, and the older ones are of course manual focus only. Generally I hate live view. But it is very useful it you want to manually focus a 50mm f/1.2 lens accurately on just the right bit of the flower, or the eyes of a person, or manually focus any other fast lens that has a very small depth of field.

So as a routine way of using the camera, live view is a useless gimmick. But in just a few specialist situations, it's a lifesaver. So I'm glad to have it, on balance.

(I'll go back to my own forum now ... )

Tim

 

[rgy1993]

Sorry for digging up an old thread, for not letting it go, for being such a pain in the a**.

But you'll find some well respected landscape photographers (e.g. gdanmitchell) who totally use live view for their landscape shots: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/889786/0

As for those ignorant clowns (mind you, SENIOR members of this site... and non-Canon users) who laughed at me: how does the crow taste now? Honestly I still cannot understand how some of you can be so ignorant about the technology you have in your hands. Pfffft...

uhh
being a senior member doesnt mean your a proffesional
just means you post way too much...
were all humans yo.. some of us may ignore live view some may not..

personally i only use it when im filming because i have to... other then that honestly dont use it

 

[leowyien]

I use it juz to check my settings when in manual and not sure of the outcome. I juz check it, and then switch back to the viewfinder to take the pic.

 

[timo]

I use it juz to check my settings when in manual and not sure of the outcome. I juz check it, and then switch back to the viewfinder to take the pic.

Yeah but you have to be careful - if you're using really fast manual lens close up, just putting the cam back against your nose will throw out the focus. Longer distance no problem.

 

[leowyien]

Yeah but you have to be careful - if you're using really fast manual lens close up, just putting the cam back against your nose will throw out the focus. Longer distance no problem.

Thx for pointing that out.;p

 

[xxdoggyxx]

*Out of topic*

Is it true?

Everytime you pressed the 101 button, [i said is the 101 button, because it looks like: l0l]
It's consider 1 Shutter count. It's not indicated in the picture number sequence, but once its open and closed, its consider as 1...

 

[evilorgi]

why will you need live view anyway??? 90% of my shots are via the view finder, the remaining 10% had either bad angle, or too humanly impossible to reach that position in public...

 

[9V-Orion Images]

*Out of topic*

Is it true?

Everytime you pressed the 101 button, [i said is the 101 button, because it looks like: l0l]
It's consider 1 Shutter count. It's not indicated in the picture number sequence, but once its open and closed, its consider as 1...

No idea what you meant by "101 button" by the shutter actuates every single time you enter live view or activate the EOS Integrated Cleaning System (ICS) function.

 

[Wai]

my cam got no live view, but i think live view only useful when I pass my cam to someone else (who never use SLR before) to help take photo

 

[sabee]

my cam got no live view, but i think live view only useful when I pass my cam to someone else (who never use SLR before) to help take photo

Why? Because its hard for "someone who never use SLR before" to look into a hole?

 

[xxdoggyxx]

No idea what you meant by "101 button" by the shutter actuates every single time you enter live view or activate the EOS Integrated Cleaning System (ICS) function.

The 101 is the liveview button: l0l

 

[9V-Orion Images]

The 101 is the liveview button: l0l

Ok I got it, my liveview button is the SET button, lol.

 

[tongki]

u don't need it.
personally i don't really like liveview, prefer the viewfinder.
the only time i use liveview is when i'm doing landscape shots where my angle is too low/high for me to use the viewfinder.

That means, YOU USE IT and YOU NEED IT :bsmilie:

or else, you'll have to buy this to do that,

 

[giantcanopy]

i am loving it, giving me more options for viewing and composing.

ryan

 

[sinned79]

the only time when i need to use a live view is:

1. When i can't manual focus thru my view finder for some reasons.
2. When i am in an awkward position and cannot use the view finder (eg, i had to put the camera close to the floor and unless i want to lie down to use the VF)
3. When i need the grids available on view finder to compose a photo

Other then that, i still prefer view finder as the accuracy is better when comes to manual focusing (with a focusing screen used for manual focusing).

 

[giantcanopy]

and one more thing. .. people who shoot stars would love the additional zoom up view of the live view to "fine tune " infinity focus ( according to one of the avid nz astrophotographer whom i spoke to ) to get better shaped star shots.