September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
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CHAPTER 9
LIVE VIEW
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Live View
ough not a feature you’ll use every day, Live View can be a lifesaver in certain
tricky situations such as concerts, macro shots, or occasions when you need an
angle that you can’t get holding the camera normally.
By this point in the book, you should be the type of person who can bandy about
terms like SLR and reciprocity with ease. With your understanding of SLR mechan-
ics, you should now be able to see why digital SLRs traditionally have not let you
use the LCD screen as a viewfinder, the way you can do with a point-and-shoot
camera.
To create an image to show on the LCD screen, the image sensor needs to be
able to see out the lens. But in an SLR, there’s a shutter and mirror between the
sensor and lens, so the sensor is, effectively, blind. is means there’s no way for
it to see to be able to show you an image on the LCD screen. e XSi, though,
provides a special feature called Live View that does let you use the LCD screen
as a viewfinder.
Of course, one of the great advantages of an SLR is the high-quality, through-the-
lens viewfinder that shows a bright, clear image and allows you to block out the
rest of the world while you compose your shot. However, Live View can be useful
in a few situations where a normal SLR viewfinder is difficult to use. Live View is
ideal for:
Product and still life shooting When you have your XSi mounted on a tri-
pod and ...
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