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Liveview problem focusing

  • 30-01-2009 9:03pm
    #1
    deromalley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    I got a canon 450d recently and have two issues with liveview maybe someone can help with:
    1: Camera does not auto focus in liveview. Instructions give 2 options but not clear how to do this other than manually.
    How can I focus automatically as I thought the idea of this function is that you use it where you cannot look throught the viewfinder - eg wedding where your holding it over your head and cannot manually focus either.

    2: Liveview is not very clear. There are lots of large pixels on the LCD so I never use liveview.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    This should help you...

    Live View Video Demo for 450D

    Dave OS


  • #3
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    you press and hold the AE lock/FE lock button (besides the AF point select button) to auto focus focus in live view. It'll auto focus depending on the mode you've selected. The quick mode or the contrast dependent mode (which is quite slow but the cool thing about it is you can move the AF box wherever you want to select a specific point to auto focus on).
    I feel live view is pretty handy during manual focusing too. You can like zoom in 10x to make sure you get the sharpest focus.

    And yes, the live view of the lower end canon dslr's isn't that clear as they don't have the vga screens of the higher models. But i just use it for reference so i don't really expect much from it.


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