Timeline for Why don't professional cameras have a preview for shutter speed in live view?
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| Nov 5, 2013 at 0:03 | comment | added | Michael Nielsen | Canon 40D has that feature and that is a pretty old prosumer DSLR. | |
| Mar 28, 2013 at 1:11 | comment | added | Andre | Thanks, @MichaelClark. I actually intended this/my question to be about taking pictures in low light environments. This is where the LivePreview-Simulation of my good old F717 is most handy. However, you absolutely right with your first comment: judging the exposure based on the preview - or even the taken picture on the camera's screen is often misleading (looking on a bright screen at night makes the images look brighter than it actually is). So I want to go more professional here, possibly with a contemporary camera. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 23:14 | comment | added | Michael C | @Andre: This question talks about the opposite, when most of the scene is bright, but the same principle applies. If most of your image should be near black because you are outside at night, then the peak of your histogram will be well below the middle. What you want to do is pay attention to the brighter details (that will look like the short parts to the left in the example) and move them to the right without pushing any off the right edge. photo.stackexchange.com/questions/2913/… | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 22:50 | comment | added | Michael C | @Andre: Start with this question: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/450/… | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 18:58 | comment | added | Andre | @MichaelClark Thanks! That looks like the professional approach of doing it right, I am not familiar with yet. Do you have a reference ready on how to judge the exposure in low light conditions (e.g. evening, city at night) based on the histogram? I want to learn it. | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 18:55 | vote | accept | Andre | ||
| Mar 27, 2013 at 1:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhotos/status/316728246030958592 | ||
| Mar 26, 2013 at 22:01 | comment | added | Esa Paulasto | It should be easy enough to learn quickly from experience how the photo would be exposed. Electronic viewfinder (like in Sony alpha SLT cameras) is well visible even in sunlight, and it does not have the effect that using live-view on an OVF DSLR does. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 21:41 | comment | added | Michael C | The best way to judge exposure is to take a test shot and look at the histogram. Judging exposure by the brightness level on the screen is not very accurate, as the brightness level setting of the screen itself will affect the way the exposure looks. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 21:18 | history | edited | mattdm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2013 at 20:54 | comment | added | Andre | I mean preview in the sense of lighter/darker image. I do not need to preview motion blurring. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 19:27 | answer | added | matt.nguyen | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 19:24 | answer | added | Itai | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 19:21 | answer | added | AJ Henderson♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 19:19 | comment | added | MikeW | How do you preview shutter speed? If you switch to a faster shutter speed do you mean the preview in live view becomes darker to indicate how the final image will look? Or do you mean as Alex mentions above? | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 19:18 | comment | added | Alex | You mean like a blurred image on slow shutter speeds? My old cellphone used to do that, and I guess my syster's Cybershot does it. I think it's because nowadays expensive cameras can boost up the ISO to make the image steady even at low shutter speeds. There might be an option to disable that in some cameras. If you can provide your camera model or brand maybe someone can help you with that. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 19:09 | history | asked | Andre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |