GX7 question

Isola Verde wrote:

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.

It should be GX1 (the oldest model I owned that I can traced...).

LVF2 + GX1: "Play On LCD=ON" in Custom Menu P.5/7 item 5, under Review, the playback image would be displayed on the LCD no matter we are in evf or LCD mode.

If we were shooting in evf mode, after reviewed the image on LCD as per above, touching of the shutter can cancel the review and return back to evf mode.

Since GX1 + LVF2 is on manual switching, the "Auto Review" (Setup Menu, P.2/5 item 4) will display the just taken picture either on evf or LCD depending on which one we are using at at that time. Therefore the Play on LCD is just related to normal playback.

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

You are correct. That "Play on LCD" option is no longer available on cameras having integrated evf (GX7, GX85 & G85). The Auto Review or manual Review will depend on which media we are using (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