It was clear and sharp and when I put a lens on the camera, frame lines appeared in the window that matched the angle of view of the lens. This was a glass window at the upper left-hand corner of the body with a fixed angle of view. I began my photographic career with a Leica M2 and learned to frame rapidly with the camera’s optical viewfinder/rangefinder. My eyes demand that I shoot most of the time with the LCD screen. My glasses have progressive lenses and that sometimes makes iit even harder for me to see the eyepiece screen. With my glasses I cannot see the entire frame in the eyepiece.
That’s my experience and one of the reasons I use the LCD screen.Īdditionally, I have worn eyeglasses since I was 12 and I have a problem with most of the eyepiece displays. You might discover that your eyes focus more quickly and easily on the LCD screen than with the eyepiece. Do you refocus instantly? Now try the same thing with a camera with an eyepiece. Look at a distant scene and then quickly look at the rear screen LCD monitor and see how quickly your eye refocuses on it. This lag can be slightly annoying or a real problem, particularly when I am shooting in a rapidly changing situation like a sports event. As we age, eyes lose some of this flexibility and refocusing gets slower. “Accommodation" is the speed at which eyes shift focus between near and distance objects. Muscles in the ciliary body of the eye alter the shape of the eye’s flexible lens allowing the eye to change focus between different distances. the eyepiece for me has to do with my eyes and how well they work or don’t work. Using live view to compose photos on your camera's rear screen is better than peeping into the eyepiece. Here's why.Ī primary factor in deciding whether to use the rear screen monitor vs. It may look "amateurish" since we see so many non-photographers taking photos with the screens on their smartphones but trust me on this one.
As people who have shot pictures with their smartphones “upgrade” to “real” cameras they bring with them the experience, if not the habit, of shooting with the rear screen. I think other photographers should seriously consider how the rear screen can actually make photography easier and your images better.Įspecially today, the value of the LCD monitor shouldn’t be overlooked.
I prefer the LCD screen, especially if it's an articularing or side-swiveling monitor, for several reasons. I shoot most of my photos using the LCD screen on the back of my cameras rather than looking through the eyepiece viewfinder.
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