 Myron |
Can't See LCD Screen Outdoors Am I the only one with this problem? I can't see the LCD screen out of side.This is especially true on sunny days. I've tried to shade the screen but it doesn't help. How do other users compose their photos? I've seen others use their screens outdoors with no problem. Should I buy a camera with an optical viewfinder?
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John Rhodes |
Myron, There is a product available from Hoodman that solves this problem. It is a loupe that allows you to read the LCD in bright conditions. http://www.hoodmanusa.com/H-LPP.php John
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John P. Sandstedt |
You didn't say what camera you're using but it would appear you're using apoint and shoot. In my opinion, don't use the LCD screen for composing your picture. That's not it's purpose - which is, rather, to give you an opportunity to view whether you may have taken the picure you'd hoped to. Obviously, until you upload it to your computer, you won't be 100% sure. If you use the LCD screen as viewfinder, there is ever reason for you to hold the camera incorrectly. That is, you'll hold it such the the "film plane" is not perpendicular to an imaginary line proceeding horizontally from your eye [viewing your subject] to the subject. In such case and, especially if your camera's focusing element sees more than one focus point, you'll take a picture that isn't sharply focused on your primary subject. This happens more often then you'd like to believe. For example, you're shooting two ladies sitting on a sofa, there's a bouquet of roses on a coffee table in front of them. Nine times out of ten, the bouquet will be in focus, the ladies will be fuzzy - unless you're absolutely sure you focused on one of them and then re-composed your picture. That's something most folks using the LCDs on their point and shoot cameras just don't do! I recently purchased a Hoodman LCD hood for my Canon 30D. Because it's winter and most of my current shooting in indoors, I haven't affixed ot over the viewfinder yet. Once the weather breaks . . . Of course, one can't use the LCD as a viewfinder with an SLR. I don't think these hoods are available for the LCDs of point and shoot cameras.
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Myron |
Thanks for your response. I am aware of the Hoodman but it is a pain in the neck to use. Wouldn't I be better-off getting a camera with both an optical viewfinder as well as an LCD screen? Would the optical viewfinder be the answer to taking photos in sunlight? The camera I want to get is a tiny Canon Elph, point and shoot, so I don't think a Hoodman would work.
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W. |
Photographers use a viewfinder. Snappers snap at arm's length (and - small wonder - they can't see WTF they're doing! Even if the LCD IS visible). Good luck choosing.
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