GX7 settings help needed...

solsang wrote:

alcelc wrote:

solsang wrote:

How do i make the back dial stop making exposure compensation?

You can config how your front and back wheel to act. In Custom Setup Menu, P.7/8, Dial set, you may set the behavior and direction of the effect. 3 options there, 1st to set f.stop & SS, 2nd to set direction of the wheel, 3rd to set EC to front or back wheel.

Yes, i did this, and still i cannot get rid of the EC engaging when pressing the back wheel:(

I often press the back dial by mistake when rotating it, and simply want it to only change aperture and never exposure comp.

Were you in M mode? In A or S, you could only be able to set A or S and adjust EC. Try the above, and don't press in the back wheel as it has to be in older panny models.

I use all modes, and cannot avoid pressing the back wheel, especially if using gloves, i simply need to have the press do nothing, it gets easily pressed on my camera (brand new)

whether i press it or not. Right now when i press the back dial, it always goes into exposure comp., and if i set it to have it be exposure comp. itself then it shows two different ways of setting exposure comp!

There is only 1 EC, can't get your meaning.

If you assign EC to the back wheel, then turn it to see the EC changing by numbers, now press the wheel and see the EC changing with a line showing the amount of compensation

Understand. For all of the 3 things regarding EC is actually about the same matter. The 2 ECs you were referring to indeed is the same but displayed in 2 different forms (strange enough? Can't understand the necessity for Panny to maintain 2 forms for same function!). Never mind if your accidentally clicked on the back wheel, the EC you did would be the same as if you had not click it. More more click would return it to its before display. I personally don't like the look of that slide bar meter look. Looking like for beginner uses!!?

Another thing is how to make the monitor show the current aperture of the lens, so i can see the amount being in focus and degree of softness of background. It seems to only show the maximum aperture all the time,

Can't understand your issue. In A or M mode, the f/stop in effect should always be displayed at the bottom of evf/LCD. Were you in S mode where you could only set SS?

Yes, I can read the A amount, yet i need to see what the picture will look like, i all modes

Please refer to P.97 of GX7's Advance Operating Manual.

so i have to take a photo to actually see how the bokeh and focus looks.

Have you assign the Constant Preview mode to a fn key or one of the soft key on side Tab menu? Theoretically you could see the Aperture Effect (background blur) and Shutter speed effect (like silky flowing water etc) by the function. Unfortunately, it seems that it would only work in P/A/S & M (if Constant Preview in Menu = OFF) mode.

I tried both Constant Preview on and off, and only in M mode does it show the effect, yet that is also showing the S effect and has no auto iso, making it almost impossible to use for evaluating aperture effect since i then also have to adjust shutter speed, which becomes too slow indoor

Yes, no Auto ISO in M for GX7. But I was just told that GM5 has it.

Activating the flash by using the button will only work if i also turn off silent mode and electronic shutter, can I make it do this by itself? When i open the flash i will of course use it and find it strange that i have to turn off electronic shutter myself since the camera knows the flash is up.

No, you can't.

Ok, hope they will think of fixing this in the future

Or you can save a setting of say, "S mode + mechanic shutter" to a C. Whenever you wish to shoot with internal flash, you may recall that C for a rapid superseding of e-shutter if it was in using.

Also the electronic zoom will only activate if i turn off raw, it seems logical that when I engage the zoom it should turn off raw by itself, or simply keep the raw as a non-zoomed version.

You mean the 2 zooms feature, i.e., Ex Tele Conv (would only be effective with a smaller resolution image, but no deterioration in IQ) and Digital zoom (full resolution but deterioration in IQ)? Under Raw, both option would be disable.

I am using the Digital Extended Zoom which does a non-deterioration crop when the file size is set to Small, thus getting a 4mp jpg file with a 2x zoom -very useful for capturing birds, but no raw available (both focus and light will be correct for this zoomed/cropped image)

I tried to find out how to make the zoom only do a crop, and never digital zoom, yet it seems one have to first select small size and then 2x zoom to be sure there is only a crop and no digital enlarging.

Yes. I assigned the Quality, Aspect Ratio and Picture Size to the 3 soft keys in the side Tab Menu for easy modification. The Ex Tele Conv and Digital Zoom were in my Q. Menu.

I assigned the C2 to be small jpg, 2x zoom with the FN3 being the Digital Zoom, thus i can instantly take zoomed/cropped photos with the same quality as a normal jpg, sadly no raw

EX Tele Conv is indeed an in-camera cropping (record information from partial area surrounding the center of the sensor) and that digital zoom is a software trick (by interpolation to enlarge the small file back to full resolution). Raw is a record of the image from the entire sensor and so like a lot of other functions, would not be applicable on Raw files.

Is there a way to change the display between showing info overlay or not? When i press the display button it always goes through two stages of showing level guides and then off before being back at info overlay, which is really annoying since i just want to change between showing info overlay or not, and never use the level guides; the information only screen can be turned on and off, but not the level guide screens?

Sorry, it is fixed by Panny to have a circular screen of display.

Strange that they allow the info only screen to be disabled, but not the level guide screens!?

Also the small fn and arrow seem to be there permanently...

You might not use it. But as in above, it is quite handy allowing us to have most usual need features be handy to switch on/off.

I do use them, only when having the pure photo view i would prefer them to be invisible, yet available, since i know where they are

While in the menu there are many things that depend on other settings, and some seem to need jpg only or silent mode off before i can change default behaviour, yet it found it useful to make a custom settings be jpg small 2x zoom as a very convenient digital crop (as long as I turn off the intelligent resolution:)

You might store the setting into one of the 5 custom setting (C-1, C-2, C3-1~3). In future, you may select that C mode and have all the setting and features be avaible immediately. Like EX Tele Conv is in my C-1 and Pmode with AutoISO is in my C-2.

I have made all the C settings do specific things, yet often i need a fill light and then find it annoying to first have to deselect silent mode before the flash will work, and would prefer the settings to tell why it is greyed out, instead of having me to guess...

But some features might not be allowed to store.

Yes, it seems that the SETUP settings are global, which means that monitor, economy and beep are fixed for all settings, and i cannot change the beep settings if silent mode is on

I am still trying to find the fastest way to autofocus for shooting portraits, and it seems to be better to use one-area than face-detection, though i really want to be sure the eyes are focused perfectly

Yes, plus the good AF Touch Pad having the single smallest focus box.

Thanks for clarifying, i shall minimise the box then!

so wonder whether the face-detection

I personally don't feel the usefulness of face detection. But some members like it a lot.

The face recognition is funny, and would be really useful for tracking age of children i suppose:)

is focusing for the eyes or if i should use pinpoint.

Unless feel the urgent need, I rarely use Pin point focus as its auto magnification of the focus area sometimes feeling annoying.

Yes, i tried to get that focus area away, will just avoid the pin focus then:(

Some information on focusing here shows that dod only works for panasonic lenses, i wonder if my 75mm olympus would be faster on a pen or whether panasonic lenses would focus faster on my gx7? http://www.panasonic.com/nz/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumix-g-mirrorless-dslm-cameras-learn/article/advantages-of-the-lumix-g-af-system.html)

When i shoot video, i found the continous autofocus to cause horrible hunting in low light, so I found out that I can autofocus while shooting by pressing the shutter and by changing the dial to mf I can manual focus by using the lens, but shake a lot, how do I engage the antishake for video?

No IBIS for video. Sorry.

That is really sad, I wonder why since their camcorders does this? I use iMovie to stabilise the videos, which takes a long time yet is quite ok, yet bought the camera primarily for stills:)

Wish you would enjoy your camera.