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276 “Custom” (Gear icon) Menu Settings

6.9 LIVE VIEW DISPLAY

Menu Position MENU  2  Live View Display

What it Does Enables / Disables the ability to preview how your image will
look before you take the picture

Recommended Setting Setting Effect ON

Constraints Not available in movie mode

This feature addresses a situation that
studio photographers face: When you’re
shooting in the studio using traditional
professional strobes (as opposed to the
Wireless flashes discussed in Chapter
12), it’s common to put the camera into
manual mode and use a fast shutter speed
th
(like 1/160 of a second) and a small
f/stop (like f/11). Then you would
trigger your flashes using a radio trigger Figure 6-11: This is what studio
mounted on the hot shoe (usually with photographers would see in
some sort of adapter). their viewfinder when shooting
with traditional strobes if this
Here’s the problem: Normally the setting were ON. (Hard to
camera’s Live View will show you a frame your shot this way!) The
preview of how your image is going to Live View Display feature was
look before you take the picture. That’s designed to address this
great for ambient light but awful for problem.
flash, since the camera’s manual settings
in the studio will usually let in too little ambient light, resulting in a
viewfinder that looks BLACK (as in Figure 6-11).

So the Live View Display feature exists specifically to address this
problem. When set to “Setting Effect OFF”, you will always see a
properly-exposed and auto-white-balanced preview in the viewfinder so

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