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G5x hard to use in very bright daylight + MF question

Started Sep 2, 2019 | Questions thread
telefunk
telefunk Senior Member • Posts: 2,652
Re: G5x hard to use in very bright daylight + MF question
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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. 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.

Any ideas how to deal with this?

Sorry to say: no. Canon MF implementation on their small cameras is excruciatingly slow.

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