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What settings affect how the focus points are displayed for my 7D?
My Canon 7d is about 2 months old. I used it for a shoot in DC, and it just isn't behaving as expected. When I try to focus, I get little black boxes in the focus frame. They used to be black, with ...
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What types of rangefinders are there and what are the differences between them?
I have watched videos on YouTube showing the view through the M9 viewfinder, and it appears that only a small window in the middle allows you to focus. However, I once tried out an old Voigtländer ...
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How can I get sharp manual focus despite poor eyesight?
I suffer from astigmatism. It's only mild, though I feel it's affecting what I'm seeing when looking through the viewfinder. Frequently, after shooting a photo with my Canon EOS 7D, I'll load it into ...
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Does wearing glasses hinder one from becoming a good photographer?
To be clear, I'm talking about the photographer wearing glasses.
I wear glasses and I find that I continuously need to make sure my glasses are pushed up on my nose and that having things at the ...
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Are there advantages to using a viewfinder for focusing instead of using a camera's rear LCD screen?
Are there any particular advantages to using the viewfinder for focusing instead of the LCD?
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What's that sign with a dot and a number in the view-finder?
I have a Canon 550D and when I look through my view-finder to take photographs, it displays all the current settings inside the view-finder itself like aperture value, shutter speed, ISO etc.
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