> On Nov 30, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > The things people do! How about asking someone else to press the shutter? > Deeper sigh.
There is some level of challenge to getting someone over here when I’m doing this. I’m also experimenting with lighting. I currently have the external monitor plugged in and have a remote trigger, so I’ll take a photo and look at it on the display during preview. > > Alan C > > On 01-Dec-21 07:03 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I need some recent portraits, and have made some attempts at selfies. It’s >> extra challenging when you can’t see what the camera does. >> >> I had the clever idea that I can plug an external monitor into the HDMI and >> use that for framing etc. >> >> It *almost* works. Unfortunately, if I set the camera’s exposure to use >> strobes the live view is so dark it won’t auto focus. Even when I put it on >> manual focus, it often refuses to fire the shutter. >> >> Also the screen is so dark, it’s damn near useless for live view. >> >> And there is no way at all to change things so that you can use live view >> with a flash. >> >> Sigh. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> l...@red4est.com >> >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
