Duddingston Posted November 9, 2020 Share #1 Posted November 9, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can Live View be turned off on the CL ? I have bought a ton of studio equipment but it now appears that I can't use my CL to take portraits using standard studio flash equipment. The flash's lowest output is F5.6 but even with the modeling light at full brighness this is not enough to see if the sitter is smiling or not. Ant help gratefully received Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Good To Be Retired Posted November 9, 2020 Share #2 Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Duddingston said: Can Live View be turned off on the CL ? I have bought a ton of studio equipment but it now appears that I can't use my CL to take portraits using standard studio flash equipment. The flash's lowest output is F5.6 but even with the modeling light at full brighness this is not enough to see if the sitter is smiling or not. Ant help gratefully received Mike I don't have a CL to check, but if you have exposure preview enabled it messes things up because the camera doesn't know you using an off camera strobe. Set it for manual mode and turn exposure preview off. Edited November 9, 2020 by Good To Be Retired Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duddingston Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted November 9, 2020 Well for starters I like your username !! However I have never come across the word " espouser" before and certainly not in a photographic context so have no idea as to what you are referring to. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good To Be Retired Posted November 9, 2020 Share #4 Posted November 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Duddingston said: Well for starters I like your username !! However I have never come across the word " espouser" before and certainly not in a photographic context so have no idea as to what you are referring to. Regards Esppouser = exposure My typing stinks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duddingston Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted November 9, 2020 Okey Dokey, I think I see where you are coming from but I've had a look at my CL and can not see a way to disable the exposure preview. On my flash setting profile (and in fact on all my profiles) the preview is set to manual but none the less the camera (or the live view) wants to show how the photo is going to turn out. So in daylight conditions one needs to faff about with the exposure controls (shutter and f stops) until the LED screen looks right in exposure terms. With studio flash one sets the exposure controls according to the brightness of the flash unit modeling lights which is fine for focusing and indeed seeing the subject clearly however when one presses the shutter the picture is grossly over exposed because the flash is that much more powerful than the modelling lights. Almost certainly Leica will say well the camera has TTL flash exposure control which is fine if you are using a hand held flash with a variable output. I have gone out and bought a secondhand Hasselblad which thank god doesn't have live view and once I have figured out how that piece of kit works will use that as my studio camera. There are a lot of people out there who think all this technology is wonderful but I don't, in my past I was for nearly 25 years a professional photographer but now all this technology is doing my head in and in my view gets in the way of actually taking a photo unless of course you put the camera on auto which seems to me to be an admission of failure. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good To Be Retired Posted November 9, 2020 Share #6 Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Duddingston said: Okey Dokey, I think I see where you are coming from but I've had a look at my CL and can not see a way to disable the exposure preview. Not being a CL user, I can only make an educated WAG from reading the manual. From page 83 of the US version: As this seems to be an instruction for turning exposure simulation ON, I suspect that doing the opposite will turn it OFF. In the second attached photo of the back of the camera, navigate to the bottom line EXPOSURE PREVIEW and click on it. See if you can turn off MANUAL. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! As previously mentioned, set exposure control to MANUAL. Might have to turn off Electronic Shutter also, I don't know. If it's not possible to disable exposure simulation then I suggest this would be an inappropriate camera for studio flash. Edited November 9, 2020 by Good To Be Retired Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! As previously mentioned, set exposure control to MANUAL. Might have to turn off Electronic Shutter also, I don't know. If it's not possible to disable exposure simulation then I suggest this would be an inappropriate camera for studio flash. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/314958-live-view/?do=findComment&comment=4077273'>More sharing options...
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