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Cold, hard reality sets in...

Started Jul 9, 2001 | Discussions thread
OP Wayne DeWitt Senior Member • Posts: 1,259
Re: Cold, hard reality sets in...

A videocam with a "split field" diopter would probably do the trick - you could display both views at once. Not sure if it will matter enough to me to look into. I'll have to wait and see. You kind of get an unconscious feel for how your camera operates after awhile - as long as you do enough "action" shooting, and the camera is consistant (forget autofocus). I won't be doing much so it'll probably bother me more than most when I have to. I guess that I'll have to run tests. One more thing to worry about. Thanks a lot!

Frank B wrote:
Here is where it would be nice to know what lag there is between
the actual scene and what you see in the EVF viewfinder. Assuming
you have a situation where you can pre-focus does the EVF add a
tenth of a second or so to the shutter lag? I don't know how you
measure this (one eye on the viewfinder and the other looking at
the scene?).

I believe, someone from Japan reported that when he pre-focused on
a TV he could not get what he saw when he pressed the shutter and
thought it was because of the EVF. Not exactly scientific, but
there my be an additional lag in trying to get the "decisive
moment" due to the EVF.

Frank B

Wayne wrote:

There's only one thing wrong with "bracketing" of any kind and that
is the point in time that you wish for the exposure to be taken
will result in one exposure, the others will occur after that point
in time. For a lot of the subjects that I photograph that's not
important. But try to bracket a child's smile, or look of surprise,
or a bird sihouetted by the sun. We're back to the "Decisive
Moment" again - and there's really only one.

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