Canon G6 Viewfinder Problem

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I recently bought Canon G6 from Dell, and was testing its different
features. When I use the viewfinder instead of LCD, the center of the
picture is always off the focus point where I set the center of cross
in viewfinder.

Anyones! suggestions?

Thanks.

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mohsin.nadeem@gmail.com writes:
>I recently bought Canon G6 from Dell, and was testing its different
>features. When I use the viewfinder instead of LCD, the center of the
>picture is always off the focus point where I set the center of cross
>in viewfinder.

In general, the optical viewfinders on point & shoot cameras are not
very accurate. This applies to both film and digital cameras.

When the subject is at infinity, the centre cross in the viewfinder
ought to be roughly aligned with the focusing area. (The G6 should
show you the focus area precisely on the LCD if you turn off AiAf).
And the field of view shown by the finder should be *included* in what's
shown on the LCD and actually taken, but it won't be identical. Optical
finders usually show only 80-90% of the full image frame, and it's not
necessarily precisely centred either - particularly for zoom optical
finders.

So you should expect that if you see something in the optical finder, it
ought to be in the captured image, but there will be additional material
at the sides. You'll have to crop the image to get exactly what you saw
in the finder. If you want to frame the shot exactly during shooting,
you'll need to use the LCD.

All of the above applies for subjects at infinity. As subjects get
closer to the camera, there's also a parallax error because the finder
is above the lens and usually to one side as well.

Dave

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All: Thanks for your suggestions. After posting this message, I did
some research and found about parallax issue. Before Canon G6, I was
using Olympus D-40, and never had any issue with parallax while using
viewfinder even while shooting at very closer distances.

Well, I think I'll have to live with that now. Just a point, now when I
compare D-40 and G6 pictures, O'man, D40 is a awesome, very compact and
excellent pictures

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<mohsin.nadeem@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I recently bought Canon G6 from Dell, and was testing its different
> features. When I use the viewfinder instead of LCD, the center of the
> picture is always off the focus point where I set the center of cross
> in viewfinder.
>
> Anyones! suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>

Use the LCD. Look at the viewfinder from the front of the camera, and look
at the lens. It should be obvious why you don't get an image of what you're
looking at. The LCD however, sees exactly what the lens sees. I NEVER use
the viewfinder on a portable digicam for that reason.

Mark