Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Certainly. You can call it dead view if that's what you've been using
all the years since you started photography.
The 5D normally works with live view off and you viewing optically
through mirror and prism, in which case it's very quick with little
lag. However, if you want to focus a manual lens like the 17TSE, and
accurately judge the focus in various parts of the image when
tilting, viewing and focussing through the prism just isn't accurate
enough, and live view comes to the rescue. Magnify it 10x, and set
your viewing/focus point where you want it and you have a view-camera
like experience with accuracy you never had with a view camera. But
then, if you don't turn off live view first, you have shutter lag.
Since you're most likely shooting a static object while doing this,
it really doesn't matter.
At 9:46 PM -0500 11/12/09, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> All live view cameras have this problem; even SLR's like the Canon
>> 5DMkII have this lag when used in live view mode.
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>So can you turn it off?
>Use it in Dead view mode?
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>Dead but fast
>Mark William Rabiner
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