Nice to see 'hulling' - a word absent from many people's vocabulary!
Jez, a few months away from strawberry season.
On 08/03/2013, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yesterday I had need of making a bunch of photos in an large area lit
> only by some not very bright or numerous fluorescent lights. I figured
> I'd need some flash assistance so took along a T-32 for the E-M5 and
> another one mounted on a light stand with an optical trigger attached.
>
> My task was to photograph a couple dozen people who were hulling
> strawberries in preparation for the dessert following today's lunch at
> the clubhouse. I had been there earlier to check the light and take
> some shots of the setup before the people arrived. I had taken the
> earlier shots without flash which was OK for longish exposures without
> people present. But I knew it wasn't going to work with moving people
> so brought along the two flashes for the later shots.
>
> What I hadn't counted on was that, when I had the camera properly
> adjusted for an exposure with non-TTL flash assist, the liveview
> viewfinder would happily show me the under-exposed areas by coloring
> them blue... basically the entire viewfinder. For whatever reason,
> pressing the focus button causes the viewfinder to briefly illuminate to
> a level bright enough to see where you're focusing but it's only for an
> instant. What you can't see under the blue fog is the faces of the
> people. You can't tell if you have their attention, are smiling,
> frowning or anything else. The action of the viewfinder was a big
> surprise and I had no idea how to brighten it short of setting an normal
> exposure without flash which I couldn't do. So I worked my way through
> it by chimping and taking some extra shots but knew I had to dig into
> the E-M5 manual as soon as I got back home.
>
> I was convinced there must be a menu setting to turn that blue fog off
> and spent a long time looking through the manual for various terms I
> thought might be related. But I was batting zero until I finally ran
> across something outside the menu section referring to the info button.
> It was only then that I remembered that the info button can march
> through various displays... during liveview in the EVF. Of course a
> Canon 5D can't do that as the info button changes only what you see
> during image playback. Durn, one press of the info button and the blue
> fog disappears. Imagine that. Now I know that I knew that a month ago
> but had never used the capability that I can recall and had forgotten it
> entirely. It also resolved some other mysteries I had about the
> shooting info display.
>
> But whilst looking through the menu structures under [gears->D] I did
> discover: Live View Boost
> If [On] is selected, priority will be given to making images
> clearly visible; the effects [of] exposure compensation and other
> settings will not be visible in the monitor.
>
> It only mentions the monitor but I can attest that it also affects the
> EVF if set. It's a very peculiar setting since it creates a bright
> display with a well balanced histogram... that is totally independent of
> any exposure settings on the camera. I can imagine having need of that
> one day but it's fiddly diving deep into the menus to set or reset it.
> Now I'll have to figure out how to create and store customized settings.
> Just another thing I haven't done yet and an not used to.
>
> Chuck Norcutt (no longer quite so befuddled)
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