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Old 09-04-2014, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by raymo View Post
Perhaps Justin or Chris could clarify what they mean by having Liveview
switched off while imaging[Justin said that it would get rid of the lines
on my images]. I only use it for maybe 20 secs or so with my Bahtinov
mask to get the focus right before starting the session. I will now be focusing using BYE. I don't understand why I would want Liveview on
during imaging.I like to store my images in the camera as well as on the laptop as a backup. This doesn't cause noise does it? Sorry, I'm not very
tech savvy.
raymo
There is no reason to leave Liveview running while imaging but some people might do it anyway and this would generate excess heat and battery drain, you're obviously not one of them so you don't need to worry

Writing images to the card would generate a bit of heat if you were taking shots quickly and it was constantly writing but writing an image every 30/60/90 seconds isn't going to do anything negative IMO.

In terms of heat, using Liveview on the camera and focusing using BYE would be the same, as the mirror is up and the camera is reading and processing image data, but I wouldn't worry too much as 20 seconds to focus is negligible compared to a night of imaging.
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