grantjames
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Hi all!
This might be a really stupid question but it's something that I've always wanted to know.
Every single new compact camera on the market, of course, has a screen that you can view the current shot in, with the image on the screen being close to what the final image turns out as (except of course in cases of low lighting and when using flash etc...)
Anyways, I have a Canon EOS 1000D and this "Live view" feature is only available when manually shooting, and I think it was also disabled by default.
So I have 2 questions:
1. Why isn't live view available in auto shooting mode when it is on cheap compacts?
2. Why would it be turned off by default? Is there a down side to viewing things on the screen rather than through the view finder (sorry if this isn't the correct terminology!)
Thanks in advance!
This might be a really stupid question but it's something that I've always wanted to know.
Every single new compact camera on the market, of course, has a screen that you can view the current shot in, with the image on the screen being close to what the final image turns out as (except of course in cases of low lighting and when using flash etc...)
Anyways, I have a Canon EOS 1000D and this "Live view" feature is only available when manually shooting, and I think it was also disabled by default.
So I have 2 questions:
1. Why isn't live view available in auto shooting mode when it is on cheap compacts?
2. Why would it be turned off by default? Is there a down side to viewing things on the screen rather than through the view finder (sorry if this isn't the correct terminology!)
Thanks in advance!