Grid display
In Live View mode, photographers have the choice of straight viewing or overlaying a nine-box Rule of Thirds grid or a 24-box grid to aid in composition. Architectural and landscape photographers have long grown accustomed to these optical features by purchasing special focusing screens for their cameras but now have the option of stepping back from the camera and contemplating the scene as it might appear as a print or Web image and then line up important elements to complement the rectangular frame in Live View. Although the grid disappears from the LCD monitor when shooting video, you can use the grid to compose a scene. This is truly groundbreaking because now you can approach this 35mm dSLR much like a 4 x 5 view camera (only the image is right-side up) and contemplate and compose the whole scene from a distance, the way it used to be. Rule of Thirds placement of critical subjects now becomes intuitive by utilizing the overlay grids.
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