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G5x hard to use in very bright daylight + MF question

Started Sep 2, 2019 | Questions thread
NextShowForSure Contributing Member • Posts: 765
Re: G5x hard to use in very bright daylight + MF question

pbug56 wrote:

Hi,

Love my G5x, over time learning to use more of its capabilities, but I've run into 2 obstacles;

1. Very hard to use in bright daylight. My old G11 (needing repairs) was very easy to use in bright daylight because the eye level viewfinder was pure optical, something very hard to get any more. The G5x - the flat panel just washes out even set to full brightness, and I cannot find any way to turn up the brightness on the EVF.

Press and hold the info bottom dial button to toggle extra brightness on and off for the rear panel if that helps. It seems to also turn up the EVF a bit.

Easier to do with canons with a separate info button.

The eyecup doesn't help - it just doesn't block light out and I can't find a replacement that would.

2. Manual focus. Easy to engage, painful to use. Sure, you can use the touch screen, but you'll miss 20 shots while you do it. Sometimes the dial around the button that includes the MF selection) lets you adjust manual focus. The super enlargement that it does is a nice idea but awful to use - you can't see what you are aiming at. There seem to be no other focus aids, no way to see if you are in focus.

Are you using peaking? Tab 4 on the camera menu. The most painless way to manually focus I find out of all of them.

And sometimes turning that knob has no affect at all. In the meantime, the knob up front, along with the ring around the lens barrel have very little function, but as far as I can tell, neither can be programmed to handle MF duties.

The knob up front seems to work on mine but being a click is not ideal. There seems to be a bug where if using the cursor button to push right up to infinity it seems to stick there for a bit and needs a few pokes on the onscreen down cursor to get it down again.

Any ideas how to deal with this?

Thanks,

Ron

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