Comments on: Tethered Shooting – Professional Chimping? http://www.nslms.com/2009/03/08/tethered-shooting-professional-chimping/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:53:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Raymond http://www.nslms.com/2009/03/08/tethered-shooting-professional-chimping/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Raymond Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:20:03 +0000 http://www.nslms.com/?p=58#comment-343 The objection to chimping seems to be a) it is a distraction from working with your model etc and b) you're using it to check for errors you shouldn't be making in the first place (e.g. exposure). I can see there is some validity to that, but it is not an absolute thing. When I was shooting the moon I didn't need to interact with my model and I couldn't see errors clearly on the tiny LCD and I don't know enough to work out the right exposure without help. I don't see anything wrong with not knowing what you are doing and having to check, isn't that called learning? Try tethering -- you don't need a Mac or a D3x to do that. On linux you can use gphoto and on Windows you can use the script I wrote (see my blog). If you don't like it you don't have to do it -- it's a choice right? Just like that immediate LCD preview thing, which I also have turned off. Initially to save battery but now I'm happier with it for basically the same reasons you give. Raymond The objection to chimping seems to be a) it is a distraction from working with your model etc and b) you’re using it to check for errors you shouldn’t be making in the first place (e.g. exposure).

I can see there is some validity to that, but it is not an absolute thing. When I was shooting the moon I didn’t need to interact with my model and I couldn’t see errors clearly on the tiny LCD and I don’t know enough to work out the right exposure without help.

I don’t see anything wrong with not knowing what you are doing and having to check, isn’t that called learning?

Try tethering — you don’t need a Mac or a D3x to do that. On linux you can use gphoto and on Windows you can use the script I wrote (see my blog).

If you don’t like it you don’t have to do it — it’s a choice right? Just like that immediate LCD preview thing, which I also have turned off. Initially to save battery but now I’m happier with it for basically the same reasons you give.

Raymond

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