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Live View Shooting Cautions for Stills and Movies

Notes About the Live View Image

Under low light, the Live View image might show chrominance noise. In still photos, chrominance noise is not recorded. However, in movies, it will be recorded in almost the same way you see it on the LCD monitor. When you magnify the image, the image sharpness may look more pronounced than it really is.

Notes About the Shooting Results

When you shoot continuously with Live View function for a long period, the camera’s internal temperature may increase and it can degrade image quality. Terminate Live View shooting when not shooting images. Before taking a long exposure or shooting a movie, stop Live View shooting temporarily and wait several minutes before shooting. This is to prevent image degradation.

Live View shooting in high temperatures and at high ISO speeds may cause noise or irregular colors.

If you shoot still photos at a high ISO speed or shoot a movie in low light, horizontal stripes may become noticeable as noise.

If you take the picture while the image is magnified, the exposure might not come out as desired. Return to the normal view before taking the picture. During the magnified view, the shutter speed and aperture will be displayed in red. Even if you take the picture during magnified view, the captured image will show the normal view.

Custom Function Notes

Live View shooting will disable certain Custom Function settings (p.173). If [8C.Fn II -4: Auto Lighting Optimizer] (p.177) is set to anything other than [3: Disable], the image may look bright even if a decreased exposure compensation or flash exposure compensation has been set.

Notes about lenses and flash

The focus preset feature on super telephoto lenses cannot be used. With an external Speedlite, FE lock, modeling flash, and test flash cannot be used.

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