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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
Jonathan Gladstone Regular Member • Posts: 448
Re: Current time

Michael Meissner wrote:

When I'm shooting renaissance faires, I often need to know what time it is, as I don't typically wear a wrist watch (*). If I'm carrying my Olympus camera in my hands, I will often check the time by doing Menu -> Up Arrow (to get to the utility menu) -> Right Arrow (to get to the time set menu) to see what the time is, and then press Menu twice to get back.

On the Panasonic, the time set menu is not in a convenient location. If you cycle through the live view displays with display, there is one screen that briefly shows the current time. However, since that screen is not the screen that shows the histogram and level settings, it isn't my normal screen and as I said, the time only shows up briefly, and then goes away.

Silly reply - what about a 'newfangled wrist sundial'?

Not silly reply - I too want to work out what the time is with no watch but my camera has no 'clock' per se. What I do then is quickly 'playback' and see what time I took the last image.   it stays on screen then until I 1/2 press the shutter button.   It also allows me to keep my eye to the viewfinder as well.

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