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Chapter 1: Getting the Lay of the Land
Shooting settings displayed
in Full Auto mode
Shooting settings displayed
in Aperture-priority AE mode
Photo playback
(zoomed in)
Movie made
(during shooting)
Figure 1-5:
The monitor is one of the most important parts of the camera.
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Clean smart.
It’s virtually impossible to keep nose prints and finger-
prints off the monitor — well, for us, anyway. When you get the urge to
clean the screen, use only special cloths and cleaning solutions made for
this purpose. (You can find them in any camera store.)
Do not
use paper
products, such as paper towels, because they can contain wood fibers
that can scratch the surface of the LCD. And never try to use a can of
compressed air to blow dust off the camera because the air is cold and
can crack the monitor.
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Live View photography has some drawbacks.
Live View
is the feature
that enables you to compose your photos using the monitor rather than
the viewfinder. You switch the feature on and off by pressing the Live
View button, which is found to the right of the viewfinder and looks like
the icon shown in the margin here.
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