This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Better Photography. Finally, some companies have been bringing back the splitscreen viewfinder, but digitally! All these are technologies that can work in Live View, or of course, if the camera has an Electronic Viewfinder. Other cameras have something called focus peaking, which outlines the areas that are in focus and thus makes it far quicker to ascertain focus. more accurately than you would by looking through the optical viewfinder. You can press and depress this quickly enough to frame, focus, confirm the frame and then click. Live View mode allows you to see what your DSLR camera sees in real-time by. There are a bunch of new-age technologies that work as focusing aids, some of which are actually quite quick to use, while shooting moving subjects.įor instance, some cameras have a one-touch 100% zoom button. Live View manual focusing is not just about slowing down and shooting stationary subjects. Image Source/ Not Just About Slowing Down While modern-day optical viewfinders do not have a splitscreen focusing mechanism, some companies have included a similar mechanism in the Electronic Viewfinder/Live View display. Live View, on the other hand, allows you to zoom into a scene multifold, even up to ten times, and ascertain whether pinpoint focus has been achieved. Apart from a green-dot confirmation in the viewfinder readout, you are largely relying on your eyesight. Today, no DSLR comes with a splitscreen viewfinder. Manual cameras and rangefinders are optimised for the use of manual focus, so you can use fast lenses that have very shallow DOF and still fine tune focus really quickly. The reason for this has to do with the focusing accuracy in regards. Whenever Pye shoots on his Canon 5D Mark IV, he often uses live view to capture portraits. Reason 1 to Use Live View: Focusing Accuracy. That is largely because in the digital age, viewfinders are not what they used to be in the days of fully manual film cameras. In this article, Pye shares when and why he chooses to use live view to capture images, as well as when the viewfinder is the best option. This makes your framing choices far more deliberate, considered and also helps you avoid tilted horizons.īut why would you use Live View to focus manually in the first place? Mainly, because it is far more accurate as opposed to the traditional method of looking through the optical viewfinder and figuring out if you’ve got focus right. The use of Live View and manual focus is best done with a tripod. First, it will force you to think about composition more carefully. Live View and manual focus may seem like a boring idea, but slowing down can help your photography in several ways.
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