LCD - can it be trusted?

[reddawn]

Hi

I have not seen this mentioned anywhere before, so this may be a problem just specific to me (after all, I am only a few weeks into digital photography... :P)

I have noticed often that pictures I took turned out very dark and underexposed (even on several properly calibrated monitors). However, they looked fine on the G1's LCD screen......

Is it a fact that I cannot trust the LCD (even at lowest brightness levels) and must always take care to compensate for the brightness of the LCD?

Do you guys do that?

[koumou]

The Lcd is about a stop brighter than what one gets on the monitor ,so that should allways be taken into account if you rely on it for exposure

Koumou

[Novice1]

I've had my G1 for about a week now. I noticed yesterday that the LCD never shows some of my subjects in focus even though they are in focus when I view the shot I just took. For example, I want to take a photo of a soda can about 8 feet away. I zoom in on the can but the LCD never shows the can in focus. I take the shot anyway. I then look at the picture I just took and the soda can is in focus. I can even read the words on it. What's going on? Is it me, the limitations of the camera or a defective camera?

[gnevarez]

Novice1 wrote:
... I zoom in on the can but the LCD never shows the can in focus ...

Half-press the shutter, and the camera autofocus will come into play. Then you'll see the object focused...

... or not, depending in composition :-)

The object has to be centered in the image and in a propper range. Try using macro if it is close and just doesn't show right.

You could also try the manual focus, but in my experience is difficult to use... I can see the image "kinda" focused on the lcd... or definitively out of focus. Maybe a little number telling us the focus range would help??? It's already in the firmware wishlist