Chapter 6. Shooting in Live View or Tethered
In This Chapter
About Live View shooting
Live View features and functions
Setting up for Live View shooting
Working with Live View
Whether you're upgrading to the EOS 50D from a point-and-shoot camera or you like the idea of viewing, composing, and focusing images using the large 3-inch LCD monitor instead of the viewfinder, Live View shooting is for you.
More specifically, the 50D Live View feature offers flexibility in framing images, particularly when you have to crouch down to examine the shot through the viewfinder or in other scenes that require unnatural body contortions. In addition, Live View shooting is helpful for macro shooting and for shooting products.
Live View offers a view that can be magnified up to 10x to ensure tack-sharp automatic or manual focus as well as a face-detection focusing option. Live View also offers two Silent modes that reduce shutter noise.
The Live View shooting function is also useful when shooting tethered (where the camera is connected by a cable to a computer) or wireless in the studio. While Live View shooting isn't the best choice for all shooting scenes, it is a good choice in controlled and close-up shooting scenarios as well as in unusual scenes where you simply cannot get the shot by looking through the viewfinder.
About Live View Shooting
The concept of a digital SLR being able to hold the shutter open to give you a real-time view of the scene and yet pause long enough to focus is impressive. And ...
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