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Aug 13 2009 10:45pm
lol yeah. bummer. Well I suppose your stuck with trial and error eh. Or you might try tethered shooting with the eos utility and a usb cable? Im not sure if you can use it to zoom in on the image. I have never tried before.

http://www.jibble.org/canon-tethered-shooting/
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Aug 13 2009 11:42pm
Quote (bountiehunter @ Thu, Aug 13 2009, 10:45pm)
lol yeah. bummer. Well I suppose your stuck with trial and error eh. Or you might try tethered shooting with the eos utility and a usb cable? Im not sure if you can use it to zoom in on the image. I have never tried before.

http://www.jibble.org/canon-tethered-shooting/


Cool - didn't know that was possible! I find I have troubles with this a lot with my camera so I try not to do such selective focusing with it.
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Aug 14 2009 09:41pm
Quote (chantal7 @ Thu, Aug 13 2009, 08:58am)
:lol:

The keychain is maybe 3 inches? Idk. And I got it from a store called "Ardene" in the key chain section. You can't bounce it on the racket, no, lol.


Great! There is one near where I live so I'm definitely going to check what other cool stuff they have lol. Thanks!


About the live view thing. I believe unless it was hard for you to see through the viewfinder the live view function is kinda useless in this case. I would use manual focus and aim at the object you want to focus on through one of the focus points and if it's in focus that focus point would blink at least that's what my camera would do and I believe yours could do that too.

This post was edited by Futurama on Aug 14 2009 09:42pm
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Aug 14 2009 09:53pm
Quote (Futurama @ Fri, Aug 14 2009, 10:41pm)
Great! There is one near where I live so I'm definitely going to check what other cool stuff they have lol. Thanks!


About the live view thing. I believe unless it was hard for you to see through the viewfinder the live view function is kinda useless in this case. I would use manual focus and aim at the object you want to focus on through one of the focus points and if it's in focus that focus point would blink at least that's what my camera would do and I believe yours could do that too.


Switch live view on. Zoom 10x on what you want focused. Go manual. It will help A TON.
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Quote (bountiehunter @ Fri, Aug 14 2009, 09:53pm)
Switch live view on. Zoom 10x on what you want focused. Go manual. It will help A TON.


Oops! Forgot about that one lol. Well, also I've used it as some kind of a binocular :D
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Aug 15 2009 01:30am
Quote (bountiehunter @ Fri, Aug 14 2009, 09:53pm)
Switch live view on. Zoom 10x on what you want focused. Go manual. It will help A TON.


That just confuses me, but I don't have live view so that's probably why :lol:

Quote (Futurama @ Fri, Aug 14 2009, 09:41pm)
Great! There is one near where I live so I'm definitely going to check what other cool stuff they have lol. Thanks!


About the live view thing. I believe unless it was hard for you to see through the viewfinder the live view function is kinda useless in this case. I would use manual focus and aim at the object you want to focus on through one of the focus points and if it's in focus that focus point would blink at least that's what my camera would do and I believe yours could do that too.


Hmm interesting - haha, never knew that. :D Ty!
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