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>>214689 >rapidly changing environment
This is actually where auto stuff trips up. Shooting in a thick crowd? Well, your meter is going to want radically different exposures if there's an opening in front of you with the setting sun shining into it than if there's a person close in front of you wearing a black shirt. One second after that chap moves, there's the sun again.
>I dont shoot street photography (i shoot urban, but the people are not my subject), but i never find myself not able to use the information provided by my back screen (which is lolhuge and well set out) or the info in the viewfinder.
This, and your general shooting style (which is not right or wrong, just different) is why you don't get it.
Except when I'm shooting something continuous, like a performance up on a stage or a construction worker hammering (nails with a Nikon, amirite?) I keep my camera down from my eye, looking over the whole seen and waiting for "the decisive moment," as it's called. Then I raise it up. If you shot like this, or shot random, unpredictable subjects that last a moment (as opposed to buildings, which are static, and sports, which are continuous) and then are gone, you would understand the value of top LCDs.
They're not essential- the camera I use 95% of the time doesn't have one- and if I were a camera designer I would only put one in if it didn't compromise something else, say, size. But they are nice and useful if one does shoot like that.
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