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DSLRs at the Athens Olympics
You may have noticed the crowd of sports photographers trying to get a
photo of the female Russian pole-jumping final winner while she hugs the trainer five minutes ago. Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. By the way, the DSLRs used looked like Canons. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Olympus_405080/ Olympus 5060 resource - http://www.molon.de/5060.html Olympus 8080 resource - http://www.molon.de/8080.html |
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"Alfred Molon" wrote in message
... You may have noticed the crowd of sports photographers trying to get a photo of the female Russian pole-jumping final winner while she hugs the trainer five minutes ago. Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. By the way, the DSLRs used looked like Canons. What, no Sigmas? I'm shocked! |
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"Alfred Molon" wrote in message
... You may have noticed the crowd of sports photographers trying to get a photo of the female Russian pole-jumping final winner while she hugs the trainer five minutes ago. Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. By the way, the DSLRs used looked like Canons. What, no Sigmas? I'm shocked! |
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Alfred Molon writes:
Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. Well, I used to have a twin-lens reflex that I held upside down over my head and framed shots over the heads of the madding crowds. But, it wasn't digital. -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. |
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Alfred Molon writes:
Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. Well, I used to have a twin-lens reflex that I held upside down over my head and framed shots over the heads of the madding crowds. But, it wasn't digital. -- Philip Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed Legal Assistance on the Web | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.PhilipStripling.com/ | my domain is read daily. |
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Alfred Molon wrote:
You may have noticed the crowd of sports photographers trying to get a photo of the female Russian pole-jumping final winner while she hugs the trainer five minutes ago. Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. By the way, the DSLRs used looked like Canons. Sometimes all you can do is put the camera above your head and shoot blindly. Sure, not the best thing to do when shooting with an dSLR, but if you have a wide angle it's not hard to crop later. Having a swivel LCD on an dSLR would be revolutionary, but I doubt we'll see anything like that anytime soon. Until somebody at Canon / Nikon / Fuji or whoever figures out a way to have a separate ccd that would enable live preview... -- ------------------------------ online photo portfolio www.stojcic.com " If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event, what film would you use?" - Anonymous |
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Alfred Molon wrote:
You may have noticed the crowd of sports photographers trying to get a photo of the female Russian pole-jumping final winner while she hugs the trainer five minutes ago. Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. By the way, the DSLRs used looked like Canons. Sometimes all you can do is put the camera above your head and shoot blindly. Sure, not the best thing to do when shooting with an dSLR, but if you have a wide angle it's not hard to crop later. Having a swivel LCD on an dSLR would be revolutionary, but I doubt we'll see anything like that anytime soon. Until somebody at Canon / Nikon / Fuji or whoever figures out a way to have a separate ccd that would enable live preview... -- ------------------------------ online photo portfolio www.stojcic.com " If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event, what film would you use?" - Anonymous |
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In article ,
says... Until somebody at Canon / Nikon / Fuji or whoever figures out a way to have a separate ccd that would enable live preview... Instead of the mirror have a CCD or CMOS chip? It would have to be really, really light to work properly... or maybe not. If you put the sensor in the space currently occupied by the prism and viewfinder, you could keep it stationary. But - say goodbye to doing things the old fashioned way, you're stuck with one method, like it or not. Resolution, gamma and color would be other issues - the viewing sensor would have to match the main one so results don't vary from LCD composition to final shot. I'd like a LCD live preview because, frankly, my eyes suck. Right now I'm willing to live with the viewfinder because it's the only way to get the performance and quality I want from a digital camera. -- http://www.pbase.com/bcbaird/ |
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In article ,
Alfred Molon wrote: Perhaps two dozen photographers surrounding her - impossible to frame with the viewfinder and indeed most photographers were just blindly pointing the camera to her and pressing the shutter. That's a situation where a swivelable LCD screen with live preview would have been very helpful. Indeed. The shots of the pole, falling back down, would surely be magnificent. |
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