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GX7 question

Started Jul 31, 2020 | Discussions thread
Isola Verde
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Re: GX7 question

technotic wrote:

Chas2 wrote:

technotic wrote:

On the GX7 is it possible to have the viewfinder be the EVF but have it switch to the rear screen when pressing menu or image review?

Yes using the EVF eye detection sensor facilitates this automatically

Thanks but I don't want the rear screen on all the time when my eye is not to the viewfinder. I only want the rear screen to activate when I hit the menu or image review. At the moment I have to manually toggle the rear screen to look at menus (too fiddly to see in the VF) or review images which is a minor irritation.

This is driving me to distraction.... as I'm sure I've owned, and perhaps do still own, a camera [presumably one with an EVF], that has a Set-up menu option to automatically direct Playback to the rear screen.

As I wrote the above, it dawned on me that this may have been dropped from models equipped with eye-detect auto-switching?

Or is it only offered on those, to stop the image disappearing into the EVF if editing etc...

Not sure, and having now checked all 320+ occurrences of "Playback" in the LX100 and LF1 manuals, I've given up!

Peter

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