Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] A digital camera without.....
From: jsjgroups at gmail.com (Jerry Justianto)
Date: Tue Sep 26 13:36:39 2006
References: <DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B36013F1B7A@case-email> <4cfa589b0609261310ke406778p3f47a9b4688f3a0b@mail.gmail.com>

Can we turn off the display in M8?

JSJ

On 9/27/06, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> I seldom "chimp" (ICK - I just dispise that "word"). I use the display
> to review an initial setup to make sure the exposure is right, look at
> the histogram, maybe play with an exposure compensation. Then I shoot.
> I NEVER review. I shoot like I have film in the camera - although a
> LOT of film - think motion picture roll of film. It's endless,
> boundless. I bracket, I play with f-stop, but I never look at the
> image on the LCD display. Often I have it  to do a very brief review -
> if that.
>
> Don correctly points out that the display is also used by the human
> interface to change camera settings. Good design makes this easy. Bad
> design makes it an enormous pain the behind.
>
> I know the sports guys - who send their images off within moments of
> shooting them, go through their images on almost a shot by shot basis
> -- they have services on the other end of their pipeline that want
> those images NOW to appear on the web or to meet deadlines. I'd hate
> to shoot that way but I'm sure it will become absolutely commonplace
> as the wireless equivalent of gigabit ethernet is deployed.
>
> I'm not sure what the issue with your nose is? The surface the the LCD
> is heavily protected - at least on the the digital cameras I own - I
> don't worry about the darn thing.
>
> adam
>
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