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Basics of Live View
There are significant advantages to shooting stills in Live View mode, especially when used in conjunction with the D850’s swiveling monitor to shoot macro photos of blooms best captured at foot-level rather than eye-level. And video capture can open up whole new worlds of creativity for you, even if movie making does require a slightly different skill set. Live view and video are closely related, and use much of the same technology, so this chapter will introduce live view, giving you a foundation for Chapters 15 and 16, which will deal with movie making.
You may not have considered all the things you can do in live view:
- Preview your images on the monitor or a TV. You can see a preview of your image on the LCD monitor. ...
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