D600 - Live View and ISO adjustment - no live change?

[LynchpinH]

Hi guys,

Sorry if this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything after a quick search.

I've taken up the D600 after having used a D7000, and on the latter body when in Live View you can adjust the ISO and the image brightens or darkens accordingly, but ONLY if manual movie options are on in the camera's options.

I can't find the same setting in the D600's settings, and when in Live View if you adjust ISO it doesn't change the image seen on the display until you leave Live View and go into Live View again.

Just wondering if I'm missing the setting I need to make this work like it did on the D7000, as it was very handy for night shooting and using Live View + high ISO to get focus, then ramp the ISO back down to shoot.

Any advice would be great!

(I realise you can't adjust aperture during Live View, I'm fine with that - it's purely ISO I'm interested in).

 

[LynchpinH]

I think I found my answer:

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[DeMaatin]

Thank You !

I was wondering that myself, but it seems Nikon engineers are clueless about what liveview is possibly good for?

You cannot preview "live" changes of any setting, nor display a live RGB histogram. Pathetic!

I am contemplating a switch to Nikon right now but the poor liveview implementation sort of turns me off.

There is an old, but interesting work-around to the actual liveview misery, written once by Galen Rowell himself:

E x p o s e f o r t h e h i g h l i g h t s.

That means: Your camera (meter) always exposes for Zone=5 (medium gray). Just find out how your metering system works like in any kind of circumstances and how big is your exposure headroom on the bright side. In other words, point your finest spot meter onto the brightest spot in your picture and find out at which over-exposure the highlight is clipping (blown out)?

This is usually the case at (spot on highlight) +2 ... +4EV.

Together with the fabulous shadow recovery ability of modern Sony sensors, You can be quite conservative at your highlight exposure (= not too bright).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Martin

 

[Placation101]

As a newer shooter I might agree with what you say as far as how liveview works. I would much prefer exposure preview of canon style.

With my shooting style now I rarely use liveview outside of critical focus situations in which autogain nikon style is better in some cases. I have a d800 which does exposure preview or not. It is just as easy to snap the shot and look at the pic or go by the meter.

The live histogram would be nice.

I guess my point is when I was new I would have thought live view was a big deal, now, its fine, but not a big deal.

 

[michaeladawson]

LynchpinH wrote:

Hi guys,

Sorry if this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything after a quick search.

I've taken up the D600 after having used a D7000, and on the latter body when in Live View you can adjust the ISO and the image brightens or darkens accordingly, but ONLY if manual movie options are on in the camera's options.

I can't find the same setting in the D600's settings, and when in Live View if you adjust ISO it doesn't change the image seen on the display until you leave Live View and go into Live View again.

Just wondering if I'm missing the setting I need to make this work like it did on the D7000, as it was very handy for night shooting and using Live View + high ISO to get focus, then ramp the ISO back down to shoot.

Any advice would be great!

(I realise you can't adjust aperture during Live View, I'm fine with that - it's purely ISO I'm interested in).

Works fine on my D800. If you are in one of the auto modes, like aperture priority for example, you shouldn't see the LCD brightness change as you adjust ISO. If you are in manual mode you should. Like I say, works with my D800. Is this a D600 limitation?

With regard to LV histogram, there is a histogram on the D800, but it is not RGB. Personally, for me, I don't need an RGB histogram.

 

[Another birder]

michaeladawson wrote:

Works fine on my D800. If you are in one of the auto modes, like aperture priority for example, you shouldn't see the LCD brightness change as you adjust ISO. If you are in manual mode you should. Like I say, works with my D800. Is this a D600 limitation?

Correct. D600 doesnt have this.

With regard to LV histogram, there is a histogram on the D800, but it is not RGB. Personally, for me, I don't need an RGB histogram.

No LV Histogram at all for the D600.