Glad to hear that you are satisfied with the camera LCD. It does have sufficient resolution, but is smallish, so you have to get close to it to use it for MF purposes. How close depends heavily on your eyesight. Also since it is not a swiveling LCD it is limited in how low you can successfully use it with low angle TSE shooting.
Now you can use MF lenses again and nail the focus all the time.
Mike K
Mike K wrote:
Glad to hear that you are satisfied with the camera LCD. It does have sufficient resolution, but is smallish, so you have to get close to it to use it for MF purposes. How close depends heavily on your eyesight. Also since it is not a swiveling LCD it is limited in how low you can successfully use it with low angle TSE shooting.
Now you can use MF lenses again and nail the focus all the time.
Mike K
Hi Mike:
The angle and position and getting it out of the sun would be the major reasons to have a monitor. It is still pretty clunky with a USB running under EOS utility. How does a monitor with HDMI compare? Is it as fast as the LCD? I don't really like EOS utility for this work.
Except for my 17TSE, the rest of my lenses nail focus with AF alone. Before this, I was using MF primes and struggling with live view. My 17-40 and old 24-105 were not so hot at AF. My 35L was great however, I always used AF on that lens and also with the 70-200.
The 5D-mkIII after calibrating with Focal seems to be very sharp.
my Samyang still works just by using the focus dial.
Mike K wrote:
simply plug it in and turn it on, no software to boot.
Ok, I could test this on any HDMI monitor right? Just need to buy a cable to test it. I assume you mean that the monitor looks just like the LCD screen, it gets the same signal.
This is great news, I have always been leery of tethered shooting because it was so slow. Some of these monitors are pretty costly. What do you suggest for the modest need of remote viewing.
ben egbert wrote:
I assume you mean that the monitor looks just like the LCD screen, it gets the same signal.
This is great news, I have always been leery of tethered shooting because it was so slow. Some of these monitors are pretty costly. What do you suggest for the modest need of remote viewing.
I discuss this issue in the Small HD article referenced above. In general, for video composition monitor resolution such as 800x400 are OK, but for fine adjustments of manual focus, HD (1280x800) I consider minimum. This is comparable to the LCD resolution on the recent canon dSLRs. You will be frustrated and guessing at exact focus with lesser resolution, at least thats my experience.
Mike K
I discuss this issue in the Small HD article referenced above. In general, for video composition monitor resolution such as 800x400 are OK, but for fine adjustments of manual focus, HD (1280x800) I consider minimum. This is comparable to the LCD resolution on the recent canon dSLRs. You will be frustrated and guessing at exact focus with lesser resolution, at least thats my experience.
Mike K
I Googled the dp6. pretty expensive. I think I will get used to the better LCD experience first then see if I still feel a need for any monitor. I suspect that if I decide I need one, it will probably need to be a high res monitor.
I am thinking of the 5d3 as a bridge between the 1ds and the 40mp model we all hope is coming. The cost of the 5d3 upgrade after I sell the 1DS is not bad, and if they keep the hi res under $4k, I need to manage my camera investment carefully. Above $4K for the next one will be out of reach.
Anyway, I am hoarding my camera dollars and selling stuff to get new stuff and keeping it nearly dollar neutral.
Ralph Conway wrote:
Congratulations to your new camera, Ben.
Thanks, it is a very nice camera. Better than the 1DS3 in most respects, but only slightly, the 1DS3 is an amazing camera. The 5D3 battery life sucks by comparison. I went through 4 battery charges just micro adjusting it using FoCal.
But the AF is better and slightly more consistent. The long exposure amp glow is far better and ISO1600 is cleaner. I think the files are cleaner in the edges and corners as well, but that is merely an impression.
And the live view is amazingly better. The 1DS3 is first gen, the 5D2 was 2nd gen. I can't say what the 5D3 is but it is way ahead in that department.
mrbig wrote:
A USB cable is used to hook to a laptop for remote shooting. As others have said, the HDMI is used for video.
Yep, and I don't care much for it in my basement, and would never drag this out for landscapes. If HDMI hooked to a small monitor that I attach to the flash mount works as fast as the rear LCD and has the same functionality, it would be perfect,
I believe you could get cheap hdmi on Amazon or ebay.