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Touring the LCD screen and the status display

Touring the LCD screen and the status display - 5D Tutorial

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Touring the LCD screen and the status display

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Your Mark III, of course, has this big nice 3 inch LCD screen on the back, which you'll use for reviewing your images, for driving the menu system, and as a viewfinder when you're shooting video, or choosing to shoot stills with live view. You've also got this status LCD display on the top. Now, with the power turned on, it's going to be blank, unless you half press the shutter button, and that's when it wakes up, and gives you, really, all the critical status information that you need while you're shooting. Right over here, I've got my white balance display. I'm currently set to auto white balance. Down here, I've got exposure compensation; that's what this little dial is, and right now, I can see that I've got no exposure compensation dialed in. My current ISO setting. I can see that my auto lighting optimizer is turned on. The Mark III has two different card slots; I can tell that I've got a card in slot 1, and it's currently selected for recording. I'm using large JPEG format. My…

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