The Three Amigos

**Wicked Dark** · 03-14-2010, 05:26 PM

So funnily enough, in time for Marko's podcast about finding functions deep in the menu and using them to your advantage, I found out about a function that I'm so in love with I can hardly stand myself.

Now, it's not so much a function as an overlay in Live View. Most of the time I've got just the spirit level overlaid my screen. Now I find that I can make a little green square come up. I can move that square anywhere in the scene. Then I can zoom 5, 7 or 10 times. OMFG. You've got to be kidding me. I can SEE tiny details in my macro shots and make sure I've got them in focus before taking the picture??????

This is a piece of potential firewood shot in my garage with my manual Olympus 90mm f2 macro lens. A lens I will not part with while I'm still breathing. OMG. Each of those little clusters is about 1cm in width. It's like I have a whole new camera. I'm so amazed I'm practically speechless.

I knew you guys would understand.

**Bambi** · 03-14-2010, 05:54 PM

brilliant WD!!!

**Wicked Dark** · 03-14-2010, 06:06 PM

thanks much. I can't tell you how over the moon I am about this zoom in Live View thing. Here's another from a few inches away on that same log. This little guy is probably 2cm wide. Maybe a tad smaller.

I'm such a freak.