Hi, Herb, I wasn't talking about focusing on the LCD screen, but rather to look at the photo immediately after it was taken, and then decide that the focus was off, and retake it. That's what I meant by "edit on the fly".
cheers, frank Herb Chong wrote: > manual focus on a digital camera's LCD is basically useless, in my opinion. > > Herb.... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 18:31 > Subject: Re: On Manual and Auto Focus > > > Still, I'd rather have the control of exactly what I choose to focus on, not > > just let the camera make that decision for me, and just wait for the results to > > find out if the camera was right. I mean, I'm guessing that in the little LCD > > viewer, one couldn't have perceived such critical focusing issues, so it would > > have been hard to edit that one on the fly, and retake it. -- "I don't believe in God, but I do believe in pi" - Henri Cartier-Bresson