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Going from DSLR to R... does the lack of a top deck LCD bother you?

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Re: Going from DSLR to R... does the lack of a top deck LCD bother you?
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koenkooi wrote:

Distinctly Average wrote:

koenkooi wrote:

Distinctly Average wrote:

I thought I would miss it but turns out I don’t in the slightest. The top LCD is a bit of a throwback to the days before a rear screen and a plethora of information in the viewfinder. It is so easy to access that the top screen has for me become redundant.

I rarely look at the top LCD on my R5, but I suspect that, for Canon, it's a prerequisite for having that type of mode dial. And I very much like the mode dial, I can remove modes I don't want and like others have said, assign the M.Fn. button to cycle between C1/C2/C3.

I would have thought that could be done laced on the rear screen instead. Having the top screen is a bonus for the more expensive bodies but the lack of a tip screen shouldn’t rule out the mode dial feature.

I agree with you, but I don't know if Canon agree :). It feels like a very Canon thing to do, restrict the top LCD to 'better' bodies and then tie something only slightly related to that feature.

Personally, I would love to have the R5 style mode dial on all future bodies, especially on EVF-less M6II style bodies.

The non locking mode dial on the R7 is frustrating at times. I can cope with all the positions I will never use, but the fact it is so easy to knock to a different position is really annoying at times. A simple lock was all it took, but the R5 mode dial would have been wonderful to have and probably costs less to implement. So I agree, it would be nice to have on all bodies.

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