50d liveview

Welcome to the I havn`t used liveview club John :lol: I have not touched upon it at all tbh, and I have not seen many topics on here either. Maybe someone will tell us of their experiences with it under different scenario`s.
 
It will not focus with out lifting the mirror up so you lose an image on the screen for a few seconds. I use it for checking exposure as it will give you a live image of the exposure when on manual mode.

It is also helpful for manual focusing as you can zoom in to 100%
 
I've got the 40D and think the liveview functionality is very similar. To be honest I've only really used it when taking pictures at very low level balancing the camera on a bean bag and it's been impractical to get my eye to the view finder (or not wanting to get covered in mud.) As a means of checking the framing it's very handy, but otherwise I'd stick to the viewfinder
 
When I bought my first Digital camera the Olympus c5050z it had live view on it, complete with a pull out and tilt screen, this I found really handy. Unless this feature is available I cannot see much use in having it if you either got to get down on the floor to look at the screen, or if you are waving the camera above your head to get a difficult shot of something :shrug:
 
I found it very useful for zooming in on a subject at 100% or thereabouts, for manual focussing.

You just need to use it more on a trripod with shutter release or on a timer.
 
Yeah I noticed the same on mine, its will not auto focus in Live View.. I am guessing there is a setting somewhere to change that. I just never use the live view so never bothered to have a play.

I am sure someone on here will know the answer :)
 
drb5 said:
There is no autofocus in liveview. It's for manual focussing.
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Thats not true the 50d does autofocus in live view, depending on what mode its in you can press the af button on the back.
 
Don't quote me on this, but I have used live veiw on a few macro shots, and I'm pretty sure the button on the top right on the back that says AF ON gives you AF in live veiw.

I'm well prepared to be shot down in flames though :)

I've just packed the camera away for a trip out so can't test it out.
 
You do indeed use the af button to autofocus in live view. You get the autofocus "beep beep" for confirmation when it has focused. To be honest, I've not used live view per say so I cannot comment on its usefulness, except to say it is basically doing the same thing as tethered shooting (which I love and use a lot!) only on the built in lcd instead of a monitor.

You roughly frame the shot, press the af button and you will hear the mirror slap up, the lcd will go blank for a second or two and then after the beep you will see your focused scene on the lcd. re frame (you may need to refocus again) and take the shot. Simple.

You do have to enable live view in the menu first, but I'm guessing you've already done this. The zoom feature is pretty handy as mentioned, especially for manual focusing.

You also have face recognition, which works pretty much the same as any point and shoot with the same feature.
 
Live view is very useful for accurate focusing in macro shots, use manual focus if you dont like the mirror flipping up for the autofocus.
The good bit is you can zoom in x5 or x10 and get a really good view of when the right bit is focused.
 
The way Canon's focus in LV beats me - why not just use the shutter button as Nikon's do? It seems crazy to me, it just makes it awkward.
 
Liam said:
It will not focus with out lifting the mirror up so you lose an image on the screen for a few seconds. I use it for checking exposure as it will give you a live image of the exposure when on manual mode.

It is also helpful for manual focusing as you can zoom in to 100%
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Yes it will
There are three AF modes Quick mode Live Mode and Live face mode
 
love live view for when im doing landscape shooting through ND filters so you can get shutter bang on everytime, especially when chasing the light you can't be doing faffing about - also love the grid overlay for horizon levelling and 3rds :)

drew
 
Thanks all! I thoght I was doing something wrong or the camera was faulty but it seems not. Now I will have to have a good practice with. I did want it for macro work as I've seen someones macro stuff using 40d tethered and I also do a lot of Landscapes so I'll have to ask buckas how its done.

Thanks again all and anyone else know about please reply.

John
 
Grid Display

http://www.canon-eos-50d.com/canon-eos-50d-manual.PDF

Page 116

go into the camera menu > live view function settings

choose grid display, then choose Grid 1 then return to the Live View and you'll see the grid overlayed

(Also explained at the bottom of Page 119)

then when the camera is on a tripod/handheld, you can use the overlayed lines to line up the horizon in the scene - also find out where 3rd's cross (power points )

drew
 
lawrenceots said:
The way Canon's focus in LV beats me - why not just use the shutter button as Nikon's do? It seems crazy to me, it just makes it awkward.
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Indeed, I used live view for the first time on my 5d2 at the weekend and really should have RTFM first!!! I was expecting the shutter button to lock focus and as the camera was at arms reach above my head I couldn't check the screen. Result was 5 very very soft and unusable images :(

A quick read of the manual when i got in showed I needed to press the AF on button first, I must say that's near on impossible when you're holding the camera one handed above your head in a packed club.

Nice one Canon :bonk:
 
i think they've switched it on the 7D now (cameralabs review said it iirc), so you can use the shutter half pressed instead :)

surely that's just a firmware change, so could be available for 50D/5DM2 hopefully in future, doesn't bother me though as most times using MF anyhoo :)

drew
 
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