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Setting up new E-PL6

Started Jan 7, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP alexisgreat Veteran Member • Posts: 6,459
Re: Setting up new E-PL6

Helen wrote:

Oh, and to the OP, Alex: I recall you said somewhere, and apologies if it's already answered, that lightbox display in playback was greyed out on your E-PL6. You need to put Playback Close Up Mode (the bottom of page 2 of gear menu D (Display etc.) to Mode 2 for it to be available. On the downside, I don't find Mode 2 terrifically intuitive (it works a bit like the magnification button method for getting the little green AF frames I've covered at length earlier, which doesn't feel all that fluid to me in playback). Mind you, Light Box playback mode seems to defeat my admittedly odd internal logic as well, as I fumble around no end, trying to get things to work the way I think they are going to!

Thanks Helen, I left it as is for now until I get used to what I am doing lol. In a way it's good that spot metering is glued to the center of the screen, too many moving parts (pun intended!) would be confusing.  So with my hypothetical situation of both metering and focusing off center it's much less confusing using the recompose method.  Actually you only have to recompose once since you only have to do that when metering off-center and then just use the touch screen to focus and shoot!

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