Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:31 AM -0400 10/12/09, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>I must say, Richard, that we probably have you beat. Chris is
>chimping there a full 24 hours before the shot. We checked out all
>the spaces we'd be photographing in the night before, ran tests
>(with flash, without flash, proper mix of ambient light), (I jotted
>down all my settings) and then went back for a tasty dinner of
>Laphroaig.
>
>It would be interestesting to video tape a bunch of shooters working
>and see if the ones who are chimping are spending more, less, or the
>same time doing light readings than those watching the needles
>in-camera.
>
>i imagine that some clever camera manufacturer will realize that
>they should put a histogram IN the viewfinder so you can chimp the
>last shot without bringing the camera down.
>
>kc
>
The Panasonic G1 has that. The electronic viewfinder has downsides,
but upsides as well.
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