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alundeb wrote:
I can\'t find any way to get the mirror down when the switch is in video mode? How did you do that?
Hmm. Don\'t know. Presumably if you switch the camera off then on it will wake in stills mode even if the switch is set to video. I couldn\'t get video/liveview to switch off once I had activated it either. There must be a way, otherwise that\'s yet another reason the camera is virtually unusable as a combined video/stills device. Maybe there\'s something in the instructions about this. At any rate, it surprised me that the 5D2 and 500D have this sorted but the 7D doesn\'t. One needs to be able to shoot stills, AND use a single buttons press to switch on/off liveview, AND use a single button press to start and stop video recording. That is the case on the 5D2 and 500D but I couldn\'t find a way to do it on the 7D despite the extra button and switch. Brainless interface designers. I hope I\'m wrong, or this will probably be yet another example of Canon having to fix in firmware what every user takes one day to discover is borked.
Oct 08, 2009 at 06:27 AM
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