Focus point and Image review set up ???

[Jonathan Levin]

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Hi All.

i’ve pretty much finished setting up and creating User profile on SL3. I named the profile.

There is some setting combination that has me wigging out.

I’ll start by telling you what I WANT to happen:

Put camera to eye. Take picture. Have a 5 second review on back lcd. (Or dismiss image with partial shutter press.) At all other times I’d like the back lcd to be off, unless I call something up using the buttons.

But here is whats happening: camera to eye, take photo, but then the just shot photo shows in the view finder until it is dismissed with shutter button press.

The other annoying thing is even though I have the focus square disabled, so it won’t inadvertantly move with my big nose, in the view finder I keep getting the “adjust focus square”. This goes away with joystick press. How do I disable that?

Otherwise super happy with camera. Tested my Nikon SB700 and all good(in manual though) My 60mm Macro Nikkor 2.8G lens seems to work with the Novoflex F to L mount adapter, again in manual. Hope to hear from you.

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[Jonathan Levin]

After a good nights sleep, I think I figured out the setting I wanted:

In Focus settings, touch AF OFF

Touch AF in VF OFF

Image review- 5 seconds

Viewfinder settings- EV Extended

What I learned is that if you take a picture and keep your eye at viewfinder, the shot picture still appears in viewfinder. That can be imediately dismissed with a slight press of shutter release. IF you take photo with above settings and immediately  pull away from viewfinder the image just shot appears on back LCD, in my case for 5 seconds. I hope this helps someone else. Jonathan

Edited June 26, 2024 by Jonathan Levin

[Photoworks]

I find it more useful to have an image review on HOLD. I don't want to see every photo, but only in the beginning, and I keep shooting. I will review in the EVF and nobody ever knows I was checking exposure and focus.
I do lots of studio portraits and the camera is connected to the capture one, this works even if the camera does not have a memory card. I can check the balance of all the lights and judge if one light needs adjustments without walking over to the computer.

[jaapv]

Don’t you want to see a follow through? Often the second shot, just after, is better. 

[Photoworks]

if the lighting is the same, what does it matter, I will be taking a few hundred frames for expression and composition.

I don't need to take one and review, take one and review. And I don't want the review to come up every time, it will get in the way of having a connection with your subject

But everyone's style is different. to my getting a connection to the subject is more important.

[Jonathan Levin]

Thanks for that. I thought at first the evf image review was annoying but I now find that it sort of works for me. I also like that you can cycle through view options using the function button by viewfinder. I’m not a shoot dozens of frames type. Almost always in single shot drive mode. But I will take several shots if a situation unfolds in front of my eyeballs. In Adobe Bridge, delete unwanted.