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Viewing camera settings

Viewing camera settings

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Viewing camera settings

Robbie Carman: So Rich, we discussed how EVFs can help you do things like check focus and check exposure, but they also have another benefit that I think is really cool and that's the ability to see different camera settings and even audio on the display of the EVF, without having to fiddle around with the back of the camera here. Rich Harrington: Yeah, there is a lot of information that can be passed through to the electronic viewfinder and different manufacturers will have different options, and one of things I like is they keep releasing new firmware updates to unlock even more features. So most of these electronic viewfinders can be updated, and so, they could better interact with the cameras. Now when I'm looking at this EVF here, one of things I'm able to see is that I have actually got audio meters, so I could see that they're peaking here, in fact, I could see that I'm hitting red, and so the camera audio in this case would need to be adjusted if we were actually recording…

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