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canon digital xt Canon Rebel Digital XT - how do I turn on the LCD screen to COMPOSE pictures instead of using the viewfinder? I cannot figure out how to turn on the LCD monitor on the back of th...


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Canon Rebel Digital XT - how do I turn on the LCD screen to COMPOSE pictures instead of using the viewfinder?

I cannot figure out how to turn on the LCD monitor on the back of the Canon Rebel Digital XT to compose pictures rather than using the viewfinder. Please help me. Someone told me you can't use it for that - just for looking at pictures after taking them. Surely that cannot be true. My old $50 piece of digital junk camera lets me compose pics on the LCD screen!
Thanks for your help.

The problem is in the way digital cameras are designed. Compact digital cameras let one view the image on the LCD screen because the photo sensor can be on all the time (like a video camera) and feed the output to the screen.

SLR digital cameras (like the Rebel XT) cannot do this for a few reasons. Firstly, SLR stands for single-lens reflex, which means the single lens of the camera captures the image, which is then reflexed (by a mirror) through the viewfinder. Only when one presses the shutter does the mirror flip up out of the way and the sensor captures the image.

Knowing this, one might logically think, then, that the camera could simply just flip the mirror up when one wants to compose using the LCD. the problem is that SLR photo sensors, being larger in size than ones found in compact digital cameras, generate too much heat for constant use. Thus, LCDs on SLR digital cameras, with the exception of the Olympus E330, are used only for reviewing photos.



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