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I just bought one of these and haven't yet worked out how to scroll though magnified portions of images in playback view. This is something I've found useful in all previous decent digital cameras, and it would speed my learning curve with this camera if I could see how to do it, but after over 48 hours with the camera, I've been unable to see or find how it's done.

It is possible there just aren't enough buttons to allow the camera to do this, or am I just being slow? Even my E-PM1 cameras allow me to do this easily. Please let me know the button press combination that will allow it with this camera. Thanks!
 
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Nope, you can't. You can magnify in steps using the control wheel or as you would on a mobile-phone - spread fingers. You can return to the non-magnified view in one step by pressing the OK/menu button, which makes it quicker to move to the next shot.
47872Mike said:
I just bought one of these and haven't yet worked out how to scroll though magnified portions of images in playback view. This is something I've found useful in all previous decent digital cameras, and it would speed my learning curve with this camera if I could see how to do it, but after over 48 hours with the camera, I've been unable to see or find how it's done.

It is possible there just aren't enough buttons to allow the camera to do this, or am I just being slow? Even my E-PM1 cameras allow me to do this easily. Please let me know the button press combination that will allow it with this camera. Thanks!
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Whenever you get a new camera, you quickly find out that some of the things you are used to doing on your previous camera are no longer available. This is one of them.

On the other hand, it takes much longer to find out the new things that are available on the new camera that you have never experienced before (because they were not on your previous camera).
 
Tom Axford said:
47872Mike said:
I just bought one of these and haven't yet worked out how to scroll though magnified portions of images in playback view. This is something I've found useful in all previous decent digital cameras, and it would speed my learning curve with this camera if I could see how to do it, but after over 48 hours with the camera, I've been unable to see or find how it's done.

It is possible there just aren't enough buttons to allow the camera to do this, or am I just being slow? Even my E-PM1 cameras allow me to do this easily. Please let me know the button press combination that will allow it with this camera. Thanks!
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Whenever you get a new camera, you quickly find out that some of the things you are used to doing on your previous camera are no longer available. This is one of them.

On the other hand, it takes much longer to find out the new things that are available on the new camera that you have never experienced before (because they were not on your previous camera).
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Wow! on the plus side, my intuitive grasp of camera operation doesn't seem to have waned in the way I had feared. On the negative side, that is a real loss, and one I find very surprising.

I thank you for the info and will continue to enjoy the camera even with this deficiency. Are there any other current micro 4/3 cameras known to be unable to do this?
 
You can’t scroll around a zoomed in image? That seems very odd indeed. I’ve used an awful lot of cameras over the years and never encountered one that couldn’t do this!

Chris
 
Cheshire-Chris said:
You can’t scroll around a zoomed in image? That seems very odd indeed. I’ve used an awful lot of cameras over the years and never encountered one that couldn’t do this!
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You can scroll around within the image, but you cannot scroll to the next image while keeping the same magnified view.
 
Cheshire-Chris said:
You can’t scroll around a zoomed in image? That seems very odd indeed. I’ve used an awful lot of cameras over the years and never encountered one that couldn’t do this!

Chris
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No, that wasn't what I meant - sorry!

If I could see how to edit my question, I would do so in order that it should appear thus:

"I haven't yet worked out how to scroll though magnified portions of successive images in playback view."

You know, to compare sharpness and quality. I have had LOT of cameras and if this can't do it, it's certainly the first decent one. I hope the deficiency is in me and not the camera, but my first respondent seems pretty certain it's the camera.
 
Tom Axford said:
Cheshire-Chris said:
You can’t scroll around a zoomed in image? That seems very odd indeed. I’ve used an awful lot of cameras over the years and never encountered one that couldn’t do this!
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You can scroll around within the image, but you cannot scroll to the next image while keeping the same magnified view.
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Exactly :)
 
47872Mike said:
Tom Axford said:
Cheshire-Chris said:
You can’t scroll around a zoomed in image? That seems very odd indeed. I’ve used an awful lot of cameras over the years and never encountered one that couldn’t do this!
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You can scroll around within the image, but you cannot scroll to the next image while keeping the same magnified view.
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Exactly :)
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All the LUMIX cameras I have owned do what you want either using the front or rear dial. Maybe not with the GX800/850 though.

Withe my GX9 I zoom in to a pic using the rear dial then the front dial takes me to next or previous pic at that zoom level...

Hm, maybe it’s only available on the models with two dials? Must check on my one-dial GM5 - not used it for quite a while...
 
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I like to know how I can zoom to 100% in playback mode. I know I can zoom 2x, 4x, 8x but how to do full 100%?
 
mobi1 said:
I like to know how I can zoom to 100% in playback mode. I know I can zoom 2x, 4x, 8x but how to do full 100%?
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16x is the maximum and is plenty!

Can you confirm that there is no way to compare the sharpness of a sequence of magnified views? It's so easy on other cameras, including the GX80, and could easily be achieved with a button press to change the function of the GX800 dial.
 
Nope, you can't. You can magnify in steps using the control wheel or as you would on a mobile-phone - spread fingers. You can return to the non-magnified view in one step by pressing the OK/menu button, which makes it quicker to move to the next shot.
 
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