Activating Live View

As we've seen, one of the great advantages of an SLR is that you have a…viewfinder that looks through the same lens that exposes the sensor.…However, there are times when looking through that viewfinder is actually kind of a hassle.…Maybe the camera is on a tripod, in a difficult to see position, or perhaps…you're shooting a portrait, and you prefer to look directly into your subject's…eyes, rather than hiding behind the camera.…For those situations, live view might be a preferable way to work.…In live view, the camera's LCD screen becomes a viewfinder, just like on a…point-and-shoot camera.…

The camera takes the image that's being captured by its sensor, and it puts…it immediately up on the screen so that you can see what the camera is…actually capturing.…One advantage of live view is that you see absolutely 100% of the area captured…by your camera, as opposed to the roughly 96% of the scene that you get when you…look through the normal viewfinder.…Activating live view is very simple.…There is a live view button right here on the back of the camera. Just press…