Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cover it with gaffer's tape after the initial setup & forget about it. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Justianto Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:37 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] A digital camera without..... Can we turn off the display in M8? JSJ On 9/27/06, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote: > I seldom "chimp" (ICK - I just dispise that "word"). I use the display > to review an initial setup to make sure the exposure is right, look at > the histogram, maybe play with an exposure compensation. Then I shoot. > I NEVER review. I shoot like I have film in the camera - although a > LOT of film - think motion picture roll of film. It's endless, > boundless. I bracket, I play with f-stop, but I never look at the > image on the LCD display. Often I have it to do a very brief review - > if that. > > Don correctly points out that the display is also used by the human > interface to change camera settings. Good design makes this easy. Bad > design makes it an enormous pain the behind. > > I know the sports guys - who send their images off within moments of > shooting them, go through their images on almost a shot by shot basis > -- they have services on the other end of their pipeline that want > those images NOW to appear on the web or to meet deadlines. I'd hate > to shoot that way but I'm sure it will become absolutely commonplace > as the wireless equivalent of gigabit ethernet is deployed. > > I'm not sure what the issue with your nose is? The surface the the LCD > is heavily protected - at least on the the digital cameras I own - I > don't worry about the darn thing. > > adam > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information