E-500

I know this is probably a stupid question, but.....Can the LCD screen be used as the view finder like on many other digital cameras?? If so, how do you change it from the view finder to the LCD screen??

lsmith1977 said:

I know this is probably a stupid question, but.....Can the LCD
screen be used as the view finder like on many other digital
cameras?? If so, how do you change it from the view finder to the
LCD screen??

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Short answer:

No

Longer answer:

What you are looking for is "Live View", and it is available in the E-330, and rumored to be available in the new E-5## and E-4## cameras to be announced on March 5.

Canon has also announced "Live View" on one of their "top of the line" cameras (Probably > $4,000.00 (US) pricing)

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'There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact'. Mark Twain.

Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

The only Digital SLR that you can do that in Olympus, is the E-330...and now that Canon has come out with their version of Live view...

Hope it helped...

Carlos

What you are talking about is referred to frequently as live view in this forum. It is available in the E330 and possibly some others that will be announced on March 5. There is no way to make it function as a viewfinder on the E-500.
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Alan
Equipment in profile

I wish these trees weren't here, I want to see the forest!

The mechanics of the situation in the E-500 is that the light from the lens is reflected by a mirror up to a viewing screen and that is seen via the viewfinder. Hence the name "single lens reflex camera".

When you press the shutter, the mirror flips up out of the way and the CCD gets the light.

The E-330 managed live view by adding the CCD sensor from another camera into the light path going to the optical viewfinder. Or in another mode by holding the mirror out of the way and actually seeing the real image from the CCD just like a digicam.

Live view will eventually happen on all DSLR cameras despite what some luddites may say or wish.

Regards......... Guy