I take pictures of small items to sell online and my old camera (not a Canon) .. has almost met it's maker.
A good friend of mine who used to work in advertising has always owned Canon EOSs and he has given me his oldest one .. a EOS 5D MK1.
I've read reviews and watched variuos articles on Youtube and I can see that this is a fantatstic camera and I'm luck to have it.
However .. I need some advice.
my current camera allows me to do 2 things that I'm pretty sure that the MK1 can't do which might be a problem.
1. I can view the final picture on the digital display when I half depressed the shutter button. This is important as it means I do not have to be bent right over the objects and I can take the final pictures quickly knowing that when I click the button that the settings I have selected are on the mark.
2. The final pictures need to be square. I take square pictures at the moment but I don't think the MK1 can do this at the moment the picture is taken.
I realise that I can use a some sort of batch cropping program to alter them but this does add another required action and therefore slows down the current process.
Problem 1 is the bigger of the two issues.
If anyone can advise I'd be really grateful. Have I got this right ... Is there no way of viewing the picture as it will turn out .. on the screen when taking the picture ....?
I appreciate any help...
Thanks
Jon
A good friend of mine who used to work in advertising has always owned Canon EOSs and he has given me his oldest one .. a EOS 5D MK1.
I've read reviews and watched variuos articles on Youtube and I can see that this is a fantatstic camera and I'm luck to have it.
However .. I need some advice.
my current camera allows me to do 2 things that I'm pretty sure that the MK1 can't do which might be a problem.
1. I can view the final picture on the digital display when I half depressed the shutter button. This is important as it means I do not have to be bent right over the objects and I can take the final pictures quickly knowing that when I click the button that the settings I have selected are on the mark.
2. The final pictures need to be square. I take square pictures at the moment but I don't think the MK1 can do this at the moment the picture is taken.
I realise that I can use a some sort of batch cropping program to alter them but this does add another required action and therefore slows down the current process.
Problem 1 is the bigger of the two issues.
If anyone can advise I'd be really grateful. Have I got this right ... Is there no way of viewing the picture as it will turn out .. on the screen when taking the picture ....?
I appreciate any help...
Thanks
Jon
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