The LCD on the 500D is bigger than on the previous digital rebels but its still way Way too small to know what’s really in focus and what’s not for sure and theres no way to get an enlarged preview to check focus during the shot… so you can only enlarge the image to check focusing before you begin taping.

Real pain, we were worried we wouldn’t get focus in any shot but fortunately we did! They need to make the screen an inch or two bigger, cuz there’s no way we are going to lug around a monitor just for a short video shoot :P

Also a bad thing about this cam is that it “actuates” the shutter every time you turn it on in video mode. So each time you turn it on, even if you don’t tape anything and turn it off again, it wears down the camera a little bit :(
You’ve angered the micro-bikini-gods Canon! :P

Is it hard to shoot without a video monitor or LCD screen?

OH yeah, and the girl was really hot too, haha.

Brody