Take a look in your cameras instruction manual for how to adjust the diopter. If you’re not familiar with the diopter, it’s a small adjustment that can be made to the “focus” of the viewfinder to help correct for different vision. If you wear glasses, you can get eye cups that work better with glasses, or do what I do, remove my glasses and adjust the diopter for my vision when I look through viewfinder. But it’s much easier to hold steady when it’s pressed to your eye. Of course if you have a fast enough shutter speed, that won’t matter that much. We as humans are not stable platforms and holding the camera out away from ourselves will result in camera movement. When shooting using the LCD screen, many people hold the camera out away from their body, at arms length. Holding the camera up to your face with your eye against the eyecup will provide more stability than holding the camera away from your body to view the LCD screen. This part is only if you are handholding the camera, not using a tripod. ![]() So depending on what type of camera you have, you may want to be aware of this difference. Since the manufactures don’t have to line up prisms and mirrors in these cameras, it is much easier and cost effective to achieve 100% coverage of the scene in either the viewfinder or LCD screen. The camera uses the exact same information to display the image on either of the “screens”. Mirrorless cameras show 100% coverage in both the viewfinder and the LCD screen. The ability to have 100% viewfinder coverage in DSLRs is often found in the top-level pro or pro-sumer cameras due to increased cost and complexity required to have the optical image exactly mirror what is captured by the sensor. This deficit in the viewfinder has been a known issue for many years in lower priced cameras and it’s just a byproduct of bouncing the image inside of the camera, off of mirrors and then finally to your eye. Their LCD screens typically show 100% of the image to be captured. Most DSLR viewfinders show 90-100% of the scene that will be captured on the sensor. These items are merely things that folks need to think about and remember as they make a choice in the field. When thinking about the difference between the viewfinder or LCD, there are a few practical reasons why I encourage folks to use the viewfinder. But for the majority of the time, I will say that using the viewfinder is a much better method for composing your images and will result in better finished images. Of course, there are times when you simply can’t get your eye up to the viewfinder and in those cases, by all means, use the LCD screen. ![]() □ I am a firm believer that using the viewfinder is a much better method for composing your images and I’ll explain my thinking below. I don’t want to tell you which one is “best” or “right”….no, wait…I will. If instead you look to your LCD screen on the back of your camera to compose your image, you will have a different type photographic experience. Do you use your viewfinder or LCD screen when working in the field to compose your shots? If you put your eye up to the viewfinder to view your composition before pressing the shutter button, you will have one type of experience.
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