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beansbaxter · 09-15-2008, 09:51 AM

Liveview has been around forever on point and shoot cameras, I undestand the point of it, but I dont understand why its getting popular on DSLR's when it's manual focus only.

I was messing around with the new D90 and its the first camera camera by Nikon that will AF in LiveView mode. There are Nikons and Canons that have LiveView but they are all manual focus mode.

If a camera has the LiveView feature, is it possible to see an AF feature added through a firmware upgrade? Or is there something extra in the D90 that others dont have?

And a MF LiveView - the use is not practical for me. Does anyone else use it?

09-15-2008, 09:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
beansbaxter Administrator Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 559 Blog Entries: 4 From: Seattle, WA My Camera: Nikon D300	MF and AF in LiveView mode Liveview has been around forever on point and shoot cameras, I undestand the point of it, but I dont understand why its getting popular on DSLR's when it's manual focus only. I was messing around with the new D90 and its the first camera camera by Nikon that will AF in LiveView mode. There are Nikons and Canons that have LiveView but they are all manual focus mode. If a camera has the LiveView feature, is it possible to see an AF feature added through a firmware upgrade? Or is there something extra in the D90 that others dont have? And a MF LiveView - the use is not practical for me. Does anyone else use it? __________________ “The camera’s only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.” -- Ken Rockwell beansbaxter.com is my blog.