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Adjusting to an electronic viewfinder

Adjusting to an electronic viewfinder

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Adjusting to an electronic viewfinder

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- I got started in photography using SLR cameras. Not digital SLRs, mind you, but actually a film SLR camera. And so I got used to looking through an optical viewfinder. Where I'm essentially looking through a prism reflecting off of a mirror and seeing the view actually out through the lens. With a mirrorless camera, the mirror that makes an optical viewfinder possible isn't there. That's part of what makes a mirrorless camera a mirrorless camera. Instead we're actually seeing the signal that's being gathered by the image sensor within the camera in real time. That can be done on the LCD on the back of the camera. So you might hold the camera like this, for example, and just watch the display. Adjust your framing accordingly. Or you still have use in most cases of a viewfinder. It's just not an optical viewfinder. It is instead an electronic viewfinder. In most cases you'll find that it activates automatically when you…

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