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How do I turn on Live View 70D

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Go to the Canon Web Site and find the 70D Camera section. Download the manual (PDF). It's chapter 7.

Steve J
 
Press the little button that says Start/Stop. (with little lever pointing toward the white camera symbol)
 
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OpticsEngineer said:
Press the little button that says Start/Stop. (with little lever pointing toward the white camera symbol)
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No hints, maybe if he downloaded the manual he might read it :-)

Steve J
 
NewbieWill said:
How do I turn on live view for a Canon 70D? lol
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It is indeed hilarious.

Now that we are done with our merriment, do what others have suggested and read the user's manual for your camera.
 
Surprise surprise, met with a bunch of "read the manual" answers. I could be wrong but just answering the question could have been about as difficult as being facetious. I know how to work the camera in it's entirety other than this one aspect. but didn't now I could download the manual. Thank you, I lost mine. You guys must be fun people.... -_- thank you to the one person who actually answered my question.
 
NewbieWill said:
Surprise surprise, met with a bunch of "read the manual" answers. I could be wrong but just answering the question could have been about as difficult as being facetious. I know how to work the camera in it's entirety other than this one aspect. but didn't now I could download the manual. Thank you, I lost mine. You guys must be fun people.... -_- thank you to the one person who actually answered my question.
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I probably should have just ignored your post, since the only way I could have answered your question would have been to download the manual myself, and read through it until I found the particular topic you were asking about. However, for some reason, your little "LOL" statement just struck me the wrong way. I honestly did not see why you found it so amusing / seemed to be almost PROUD of the fact that you didn't know how to operate a rather basic function of your camera. That may be a perception problem on my part due to me being a senior citizen, and I hereby apologize for responding to your remark with a smart alecky one.

My attitude may harken back to when I was a brand new programmer many years ago. I found that it was much easier to ask my office mate questions about how to the use various Assembler language instructions, instead of thumbing through the manuals to find it myself. She finally had enough, and gently but firmly told me "I don't mind helping you, but if you look it up in the manual and read about it, you will then fully understand how it works and won't have to ask anybody about it again". That was in 1970 or so and I still remember it vividly. So, that may be another reason I'm a firm believer in the RTFM principle.

By the way, just for the record: in the past I HAVE gone to the trouble to download manuals and provide assistance to others, who had indicated they had tried to solve the problem on their own but just couldn't figure things out.

Anyway, I'm glad you found out how to download your manual, and in addition got an answer to your question.
 
NewbieWill said:
Surprise surprise, met with a bunch of "read the manual" answers. I could be wrong but just answering the question could have been about as difficult as being facetious. I know how to work the camera in it's entirety other than this one aspect. but didn't now I could download the manual. Thank you, I lost mine. You guys must be fun people.... -_- thank you to the one person who actually answered my question.
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I am quite amazed that you know everything about operating a 70D (not a trivial piece of hardware) except for how to turn one thing on. Reading the manual could surprise and empower you.
 
Sorry to spoil some peoples well intentioned fun to get you to download the manual to look it up for yourself. It is just that as one of the older engineers in my company, I have a lot of experience helping and training other engineers and technicians. I find it is generally best to simply answer questions as directly as possible when they come up. One never really knows the circumstance of the person asking a question. What misinformation they may have picked up and are trying to overcome, computer failures, poorly worded instructions they have been given, etc. I have often seen instructions manuals from big corporations that were just flat out wrong. One reason is that manuals are frequently written before the software or firmware is. Often because they have to be translated into many languages and that takes a lot of time,
 
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OpticsEngineer said:
Sorry to spoil some peoples well intentioned fun to get you to download the manual to look it up for yourself. It is just that as one of the older engineers in my company, I have a lot of experience helping and training other engineers and technicians. I find it is generally best to simply answer questions as directly as possible when they come up. One never really knows the circumstance of the person asking a question. What misinformation they may have picked up and are trying to overcome, computer failures, poorly worded instructions they have been given, etc. I have often seen instructions manuals from big corporations that were just flat out wrong. One reason is that manuals are frequently written before the software or firmware is. Often because they have to be translated into many languages and that takes a lot of time,
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Your point about not knowing what the OP has already been through was a good one, and I have already admitted I should not have picked on him for asking the question.

However, out of curiosity I downloaded the manual in question, to see if it was difficult to understand. Contrary to the concerns expressed in your post, it looks to be quite clearly written, to the point that even an Olympus user like me could understand it. :-)

Here's what it said about how to turn on Live View (I couldn't cut and paste from the manual, so I just typed the instructions in by hand):

SHOOTING WITH THE LCD MONITOR

1) Set the Live View shooting / Movie shooting switch to <little image of switch on back of camera, with switch set to Live View position>

2) Display the Live View Image

-Press the <START/STOP> button

-The Live View image will appear on the LCD monitor

-The Live View image will closely reflect the brightness level of the actual image you capture

3) Focus...

4) Take photo...

The above instructions are accompanied by images of the top right side of the camera, with a circle around the live view switch, and an arrow indicating where to set it. There is also an arrow pointed at the START / STOP button, to make that clear.

I also browsed through a few more pages of the manual; they all appear to be well written also. And, they make liberal use of color both in the charts and the sample images of the LCD screen showing various settings.

Purely FYI,

Tom

PS. I wish the manuals for my Olympus cameras were written as nicely as that Canon manual!!
 
Joseph T Lewis III said:
OpticsEngineer said:
Sorry to spoil some peoples well intentioned fun to get you to download the manual to look it up for yourself. It is just that as one of the older engineers in my company, I have a lot of experience helping and training other engineers and technicians. I find it is generally best to simply answer questions as directly as possible when they come up. One never really knows the circumstance of the person asking a question. What misinformation they may have picked up and are trying to overcome, computer failures, poorly worded instructions they have been given, etc. I have often seen instructions manuals from big corporations that were just flat out wrong. One reason is that manuals are frequently written before the software or firmware is. Often because they have to be translated into many languages and that takes a lot of time,
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Your point about not knowing what the OP has already been through was a good one, and I have already admitted I should not have picked on him for asking the question.

However, out of curiosity I downloaded the manual in question, to see if it was difficult to understand. Contrary to the concerns expressed in your post, it looks to be quite clearly written, to the point that even an Olympus user like me could understand it. :-)

Here's what it said about how to turn on Live View (I couldn't cut and paste from the manual, so I just typed the instructions in by hand):

SHOOTING WITH THE LCD MONITOR

1) Set the Live View shooting / Movie shooting switch to <little image of switch on back of camera, with switch set to Live View position>

2) Display the Live View Image

-Press the

-The Live View image will appear on the LCD monitor

-The Live View image will closely reflect the brightness level of the actual image you capture

3) Focus...

4) Take photo...

The above instructions are accompanied by images of the top right side of the camera, with a circle around the live view switch, and an arrow indicating where to set it. There is also an arrow pointed at the START / STOP button, to make that clear.

I also browsed through a few more pages of the manual; they all appear to be well written also. And, they make liberal use of color both in the charts and the sample images of the LCD screen showing various settings.

Purely FYI,

Tom

PS. I wish the manuals for my Olympus cameras were written as nicely as that Canon manual!!
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.. Only attempt the above after inserting a (charged) battery in the camera and switching the camera on, LOL.
 
balico said:
Joseph T Lewis III said:
OpticsEngineer said:
Sorry to spoil some peoples well intentioned fun to get you to download the manual to look it up for yourself. It is just that as one of the older engineers in my company, I have a lot of experience helping and training other engineers and technicians. I find it is generally best to simply answer questions as directly as possible when they come up. One never really knows the circumstance of the person asking a question. What misinformation they may have picked up and are trying to overcome, computer failures, poorly worded instructions they have been given, etc. I have often seen instructions manuals from big corporations that were just flat out wrong. One reason is that manuals are frequently written before the software or firmware is. Often because they have to be translated into many languages and that takes a lot of time,
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Your point about not knowing what the OP has already been through was a good one, and I have already admitted I should not have picked on him for asking the question.

However, out of curiosity I downloaded the manual in question, to see if it was difficult to understand. Contrary to the concerns expressed in your post, it looks to be quite clearly written, to the point that even an Olympus user like me could understand it. :-)

Here's what it said about how to turn on Live View (I couldn't cut and paste from the manual, so I just typed the instructions in by hand):

SHOOTING WITH THE LCD MONITOR

1) Set the Live View shooting / Movie shooting switch to <little image of switch on back of camera, with switch set to Live View position>

2) Display the Live View Image

-Press the

-The Live View image will appear on the LCD monitor

-The Live View image will closely reflect the brightness level of the actual image you capture

3) Focus...

4) Take photo...

The above instructions are accompanied by images of the top right side of the camera, with a circle around the live view switch, and an arrow indicating where to set it. There is also an arrow pointed at the START / STOP button, to make that clear.

I also browsed through a few more pages of the manual; they all appear to be well written also. And, they make liberal use of color both in the charts and the sample images of the LCD screen showing various settings.

Purely FYI,

Tom

PS. I wish the manuals for my Olympus cameras were written as nicely as that Canon manual!!
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.. Only attempt the above after inserting a (charged) battery in the camera and switching the camera on, LOL.
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How do I insert the battery? LOL!!!
 
I agree, I've always found the Canon DSLR manuals to be very clear regarding operation of the camera. There's nothing wrong with a gentle reminder to refer to the manual.

Mark
 
donaldsc said:
balico said:
Joseph T Lewis III said:
OpticsEngineer said:
Sorry to spoil some peoples well intentioned fun to get you to download the manual to look it up for yourself. It is just that as one of the older engineers in my company, I have a lot of experience helping and training other engineers and technicians. I find it is generally best to simply answer questions as directly as possible when they come up. One never really knows the circumstance of the person asking a question. What misinformation they may have picked up and are trying to overcome, computer failures, poorly worded instructions they have been given, etc. I have often seen instructions manuals from big corporations that were just flat out wrong. One reason is that manuals are frequently written before the software or firmware is. Often because they have to be translated into many languages and that takes a lot of time,
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Your point about not knowing what the OP has already been through was a good one, and I have already admitted I should not have picked on him for asking the question.

However, out of curiosity I downloaded the manual in question, to see if it was difficult to understand. Contrary to the concerns expressed in your post, it looks to be quite clearly written, to the point that even an Olympus user like me could understand it. :-)

Here's what it said about how to turn on Live View (I couldn't cut and paste from the manual, so I just typed the instructions in by hand):

SHOOTING WITH THE LCD MONITOR

1) Set the Live View shooting / Movie shooting switch to <little image of switch on back of camera, with switch set to Live View position>

2) Display the Live View Image

-Press the

-The Live View image will appear on the LCD monitor

-The Live View image will closely reflect the brightness level of the actual image you capture

3) Focus...

4) Take photo...

The above instructions are accompanied by images of the top right side of the camera, with a circle around the live view switch, and an arrow indicating where to set it. There is also an arrow pointed at the START / STOP button, to make that clear.

I also browsed through a few more pages of the manual; they all appear to be well written also. And, they make liberal use of color both in the charts and the sample images of the LCD screen showing various settings.

Purely FYI,

Tom

PS. I wish the manuals for my Olympus cameras were written as nicely as that Canon manual!!
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.. Only attempt the above after inserting a (charged) battery in the camera and switching the camera on, LOL.
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How do I insert the battery? LOL!!!
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II guess that we all need to form a pact that none of us will answer any questions that are easily answerable if you read the manual.
 
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