07-29-2011, 02:17 PM
[quote name='Brightcolours' timestamp='1311946399' post='10306']
Hmmm.... With my 450D, what you describe is normal, since the 450D has only one motor which controls both the mirror and the shutter. Soo, to get the shutter ready for the image, the mirror has to go down and up again before the image is taken. This is that way for the whole XX0D series and 1X00D series. The 50D/60D/5D/7D/1D series have two separate motors, and they keep the mirror up when taking a photo with live view.
So it really surprised me reading that you have mirror action going on with the Nikon D700!
So, I read up on it, and indeed, you have no live view without mirror slap! I wonder what the reason is for that.
You can use the mirror lock up function during live view, as a workaround. Focus in live view as you normally would, put the camera in mirror lock up mode, press remote shutter button, wait a second or 5 for the mirror slap vibration to die down enough, and press the remote shutter button again to make the exposure.
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I just searched the internet and found that other people also talked about this problem. So the mirror slap does exist for D700. It seems that the D700's LV is really bad: it has no live histogram, it does not work with the DOF preview, and it has mirror slap!
However, I found a way to walk around the slap problem at certain level: turn on the "exposure delay" function, then after pressing the shutter, the picture is taken about 1 sec after the mirror slap.
If I set the release mode to mirror lock up then I cannot enter the LV mode by pressing the Fn button. If I want to use both mirror lock up and LV then I have to switch back and forth between them.
Frank
Hmmm.... With my 450D, what you describe is normal, since the 450D has only one motor which controls both the mirror and the shutter. Soo, to get the shutter ready for the image, the mirror has to go down and up again before the image is taken. This is that way for the whole XX0D series and 1X00D series. The 50D/60D/5D/7D/1D series have two separate motors, and they keep the mirror up when taking a photo with live view.
So it really surprised me reading that you have mirror action going on with the Nikon D700!
So, I read up on it, and indeed, you have no live view without mirror slap! I wonder what the reason is for that.
You can use the mirror lock up function during live view, as a workaround. Focus in live view as you normally would, put the camera in mirror lock up mode, press remote shutter button, wait a second or 5 for the mirror slap vibration to die down enough, and press the remote shutter button again to make the exposure.
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I just searched the internet and found that other people also talked about this problem. So the mirror slap does exist for D700. It seems that the D700's LV is really bad: it has no live histogram, it does not work with the DOF preview, and it has mirror slap!
However, I found a way to walk around the slap problem at certain level: turn on the "exposure delay" function, then after pressing the shutter, the picture is taken about 1 sec after the mirror slap.
If I set the release mode to mirror lock up then I cannot enter the LV mode by pressing the Fn button. If I want to use both mirror lock up and LV then I have to switch back and forth between them.
Frank