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Just been having a play with mine, and it seems that the LCD stays off until you go into the menu, or a setting ie. picture setting (landscape, portrait etc) and come back out, then it's all lit up displaying everything. You take a photo, look at it, come out of it to take another, and the screens turned off again.

Am I missing something?
 
Like on P42 of the manual? after 1 minute the camera auto-turns off?
or do you mean the review time of an image?
(Menu, review Time - OFF, 2sec, 4sec, 8sec, hold)

sounds like you have yours set to OFF.

set it to 2 sec
 
No mate, I appologize, I don't think i've explained it the best I could.

With my 400D, you turned the camera on and doosh, the LCD was all lit up white, all the ISO & other details etc showing. It was always on, unless you had your eye to the viewfinder, or you had pressed 'disp' and turned it off.

With the 40D (or with mine), when you turn the camera on, everything else comes on (including the LCD on the top), but the main LCD at the back remains off. You can take photos, and it still stays off.

You put it in LiveView, and it comes on. You review images, it comes on. But other than that, it just stays off. Unless, that is, you click on a menu ie. picture set (landscape, portrait, monochrome etc), when you come back OUT of that menu, the screens all lit up as you'd expect.

You take a photo, review it, delete it or whatever, and go to shoot another one, and the screens gone to being off again. You go back into the same menu, come back out and it's on again.

That give a clearer description dude?
 
Hey congrats on your 40D matey! The 40D behaves like that unfortunately.

But you can press the INFO button to turn it on. But it will stay on until the camera goes to sleep, or you press the INFO button again.

You can change what is displayed there as well: Menu > Spanner1 (icon) > INFO button > 1. Normal Disp. = displays both shooting function and camera setting by pressing the INFO button once or twice. 2. Camera Set. = Displays camera settings only when pressing INFO button. 3. Shoot. func. = displays shooting function (looks like the 400D)
 
Little Man said:
Am I missing something?
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No. You seem to have correctly described how the camera display operates. I don't understand why you told us something we already know. Am I missing something?

By the way, in case this preempts your reply, the 40D is not a point and shoot, so don't expect it to operate like one. The display is there to review photos and make adjustments to certain settings, exactly as described. The only other use is for Live View operation. At all other times the display should be off. What point would there be in it being on? Apart from the annoyance factor when using the viewfinder, especially when shooting at night, it would just be a waste of battery power.

EDIT : OK, I've just seen where you are coming from. I don't have a 400D and never have, so I'm not familiar with its operation. The way the 40D works is just as I would expect it to - exactly the same as the 30D. Most of the time there is no reason for the display to be lit at all.
 
Yeah, Todd, it just through me a tad coming from a 400D where the screens constantly there to view. I never thought for a second it was a point and shoot, nor did I try to use it like one.

Strobe - Cheers fella! I'll have to get use to it then eh. :thumbs:
 
Little Man said:
I never thought for a second it was a point and shoot, nor did I try to use it like one.
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Fair enough - plenty of people do, at least with their first DSLR. Your second post did clear things up, while I was still typing my first reply. I hope I didn't cause any offence.
 
No, not at all fella, it's my fault for not explaining it properly in my first post, I rushed it whilst smelling my pizza burning in the oven.
 
Little Man said:
Yeah, Todd, it just through me a tad coming from a 400D where the screens constantly there to view. I never thought for a second it was a point and shoot, nor did I try to use it like one.
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The 400D behaves like that because it doesn't have the top lcd to display the settings.
 
As what pxl8 said the 40d displays all the setting you need on the top LCD.
Going from a 400d to 40d myself I prefer having the top LCD, plus it probably uses much less valuable battery power.
 
I use both, use 40D above water & 400D u/w ... the latter gets much less use and I have to remind myself each time about this... they are different beasts and as always the manual is very helpful...I had a 350D before flooding it, this was much more like the 400 .. not much of learning curve here but the 40D well a different matter...:)
 
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