The term “chimping” is attributed to USA Today sports photographer Robert Deutsch, who used it to describe the scene of multiple digital photographers, covering the 1999 US Open, simultaneously checking their LCDs after each backhand (as he writes, “all looking at their screens like monkeys”).
While the concept of “chimping” certainly has a derogatory feel to it, the practice of checking your LCD can be very useful. With higher resolution LCDs, larger screens, and more functions in the playback mode of the camera, there’s no reason you can’t use the LCD most of the time for evaluating images. For example, most professional DSLRs let you zoom and scroll across an image at high magnification to evaluate details. This will tell you if the image is sharp or not.
Also, you can set certain playback presets to automatically indicate problems like clipped highlights (bright regions of the image in which no detail is present). With this feature, the clipped highlights blink on the LCD preview, so you can tell what areas were not properly exposed and how to remedy the situation. On Nikon’s playback menu, you can switch from histogram back to highlight-clipping mode in an instant. As you begin to use these features, they become second nature to your shooting workflow.
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