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NX300 - touchscreen able to be turned OFF?

Started Mar 9, 2015 | Questions
brownie112 Contributing Member • Posts: 502
NX300 - touchscreen able to be turned OFF?

Hi guys

Long time lurking around here and first time poster. Got my NX300 with kit 18-55mm kit lens, the bokeh wasn't good enough so ended up purchasing the 45mm lens which is my current set up.

Question is do you know how to turn the touchscreen to be turned off if not using it? I love the camera but 2 things

1. Trying to get most battery life out of it

2. Trying to avoid accidentally touch the screen

Cheers

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Raw Jaw
Raw Jaw Senior Member • Posts: 2,662
Re: NX300 - touchscreen able to be turned OFF?

ChristchurchKiwi wrote:

Hi guys

Long time lurking around here and first time poster. Got my NX300 with kit 18-55mm kit lens, the bokeh wasn't good enough so ended up purchasing the 45mm lens which is my current set up.

Question is do you know how to turn the touchscreen to be turned off if not using it? I love the camera but 2 things

1. Trying to get most battery life out of it

2. Trying to avoid accidentally touch the screen

Cheers

Imo you should buy an extra battery and start enjoying your camera.

zipcode Regular Member • Posts: 312
Re: NX300 - touchscreen able to be turned OFF?

I can turn off in nx300m, so most probably you nx300 can also.

TJL LTFF
TJL LTFF Senior Member • Posts: 1,728
Re: NX300 - touchscreen able to be turned OFF?

There are several settings in the menu for the touch screen; it can be set to completely off, or touch focus, or touch focus with shutter release.

When I first got mine, I struggled with the latter of those three and finally settled on the touch focus option. I got used to not touching the screen accidently very often and when I do it's so easy to move the focus back to center again.

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ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: NX300 - touchscreen able to be turned OFF?

You definitely can, the camera isn't on me just at the moment though, I can give the step by step later though if you aren't able to find the setting.

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