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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
Jonathan Gladstone Regular Member • Posts: 448
Re: Two dials and exposure compensation

If my question is noobish.. please excuse me.

On my G3, it allegedly has a 'live view' mode which to me means that the camera adjusts the view through the viewfinder to be pretty close to what the final image would be (in terms of shutter/exposure)and so forth. It is a selectable Fn button (Fn2?)... which really does not seem to work as advertised.. so I keep the button assigned to AEF/ etc.

(FYI.. as an example on my G3 when I look through the view-finder with my Olym 25mm f1.8 attached, I can see the aperture is set to near f16/f22 so the image that I see through screen will NOT be the final result)

Whereas with the handy-dandy 'training videos' that Panasonic has released, there is a apparently a far clearer mode of seeing (via viewfinder or rear screen) What You See Is What You Get.

And my actual question becomes - "if you have that (above mentioned )feature available to you AND you can see a really good approximation of your final image, why do you then next to have Exposure Compensation in Manual mode, when you can adjust your I, A and S settings really easily?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRarHTcafis is a link to the video.

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