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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

telefunk wrote:

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.

Not their best feature. Amusing the comparison between the Sony RX100 and original G7X on camera store about 3:55 in to the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E6Mxxe_kG4

Any Canon user need a thick skin with Chris Niccols talking about any Powershot as he seems to jump a bit too eagerly in to immediately crush any positive things Jordan sees in the G7X but on focusing it is difficult to disagree with him.

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