Inside and Outside of Viewfinder
One of the most important items fixed under hot-shoe for viewing purpose. Actually, it’s a scope connected with mirror inside the camera in front of sensor to confirm the image being captured. Some DSLRs have small and some have big viewfinder. In older camera versions, it has been used external rangefinders and viewfinders on accessory shoe. You can call viewfinder the newer version of “rangefinder” cause rangefinder was used before the invention of viewfinder.
“Rangefinder”, similar to viewfinder have the capability to measure
distance from standing position to the position of object you’re trying to
focus/capture. Rangefinders were built-in older format cameras or the cameras
have their shoe to fit rangefinders on it to measure distance. Viewfinders have
some convex or concave type lenses to clarify the scope image. Further, it
makes contact with the mirror that retrieves the image being captured. Viewfinder
is located top of the LCD screen of camera. Placing a rubber piece outside the
viewfinder helps prevent the user from being hit accidentally as the user looks
closely through the viewfinder and the eye position may be dangerous for the
user.
Viewfinder contains multiple digits and meter that indicates
numerous settings and figures. Following are some indicators that shows off the
figures and settings. Make sure guys! Every camera has it’s own customized and
random settings different from one another. This setting is about Nikon D3200.
These settings placement may vary depending on the camera model/series/brand.
Rangefinder: For the purpose of
measuring the distance from shooting placement to the object you’re going to
capture. In non-autofocus cameras, rangefinders are displayed in viewfinder in
a metering position. The mechanism is, if you’re focusing behind the object,
the meter have more dots on the right side. And if you’re focusing front of
object, the meter have more dots on the left side. Neutral meter shows that you’re
focusing right on your pointed object.
Shutter and Aperture:
Viewfinder also contains the settings about Shutter speed and Aperture value. On
the far left side of the viewfinder, user can find the settings about it.
Having these settings added in viewfinder helps user not to note the shutter
and aperture value again and again on LCD screen. Once they put the camera on
their forehead, user can see their adjusted values through viewfinder.
Remaining storage: In
brackets, user can find how much photos can have in future in camera storage. Actually,
it depends on the quality set by the user. If you’ve set image quality to
Raw+Fine, then it’s going to take a lot of space in your memory card. Now come
from Raw+Fine to Basic gradually, Basic is the last lower quality image
setting. Basic setting affects the image quality equals to zero and it also reduces
the image size.
