Monitor Showing Live View is Too Dark

[brightnight]

As I understand it, my kraken monitor diplays the picture as my Canon 5dmIV sees it in live view. However, the camera is set to full manual and isn't accounting for light from the strobes so everything the camera sees is very dark and therfore everything on the monitor appears very dark. Since everything appears dark on the monitor even though the brightness of the monitor is is set high enough, framing images is impossible because I can't see anything.

 

How can I keep the camera settings the same while have the monitor compensate or what are my options? Is this where selecting a lux table in the monitor would be helpful or some type of exposure compensation?

 

 

 

 

 

[Davide DB]

I see that no one is responding, so I'll try to put my two cents in.

 

I don't think it depends on the monitor which in theory should replicate what happens on the display (I write in theory because I read that Sony is quite complicated on the subject) but I think it is a “simple” camera setting.

In my Panasonic GH5 there is a setting called “Constant preview” that changes the way the camera display behaves with respect to the exposure/shooting settings. This setting has impact especially when the camera is set to manual.

 

Constant preview ON = you see the real exposure on the display
Constant preview OFF = you display will have a good exposure/perfect image regardless of your exposure settings.

Now, I guess that you have just to find where is this settings on your camera.

 

One image is better than a thousand words:

 

 

[JS1221]

Olympus has the same feature, it's called Live View Boost. When it's turned on you get a bright display, regardless of what the camera setting are. I looked through the menu of my Canon T5i but I did not see anything similar, but it is an older camera. 

[Isaac Szabo]

In the live view shooting settings, try setting exposure simulation to disable.

 

 

[brightnight]

Exposure simulation was it! Thank you, was out today and made a massive difference now that I can actually frame a shot 🙂