Professional tips to avoid parallax errors
Professional tips to avoid parallax errors | ||
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There will be times when you simply must use your camera's optical viewfinder to take a close-up photo. Perhaps you're outdoors and the sunlight washes out your camera's LCD screen. Or, maybe you're taking a grab shot on the spur of the moment: It's either bring the camera to your eye and snap or lose the picture entirely. Some photos don't require deep thought and planning before you take them, too. In all these situations, you need to keep possible parallax errors in
mind. Parallax causes problems because what you see through the optical
viewfinder is not the same as what is seen by the camera's sensor through
the taking lens. At differences of more than a few feet, this difference is
minor, but as your subject gets closer to the camera, the variance becomes
significant. At distances of a foot or less, a quarter to a third or more of
what you think you see through the viewfinder isn't shown in the actual
picture. | ||