From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Understanding live view
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
Understanding live view
Robbie: So earlier Rich, we talked about how when we go into Video mode on most DSLRs, we can lose the ability to actually view the image through the optical viewfinder. Richard: Yeah. Robbie: Instead, we are viewing the image on the camera's LCD on the back of the camera. Richard: Yeah, like you are seeing here, the LCD panels lit up on this camera. When we went into Live View mode, it's giving you a preview image, and this really grew out of consumer cameras where they didn't have that. If you look at a lot of point-and-shoots, they don't have optical viewfinders. They just have an LCD panel. Robbie: Yeah, they don't have mirrors either, so they don't have the problem. Richard: Correct. Robbie: Right. So I find you know when we are viewing in Live View on the back of these cameras, there is one big problem. Even as these LCDs on the back of the cameras get high-resolution, the fact is is that they are still pretty tiny and pretty small and most of the time, we are viewing them from…
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