mountainjoe
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Just got my G3 from Panasonic Direct - finally!
One of my concerns before buying this camera was whether I would miss the automatic LCD/EVF switchover but I thought it wouldn't be such a big deal as I mainly use EVF mode anyway and don't chimp that much.
What I didn't expect is that the lack of automatic switchover creates an issue with the EVF as follows:
If I leave my camera in my bag ready to shoot (ie camera ON and lens cap removed) and whip it out to take a photo, the EVF will "white out" for a few seconds before you can see anything.
This seems to be a repercussion of the EVF gaining up while in the bag since it sees very little light. Once you pull out the camera into proper light, it takes the EVF a while to gain back down to a viewable level. This creates a significant lag when you sometimes need to shoot something that is moving or a scene that is transient in nature.
This does not happen on the G1 where the camera will automatically switch over to LCD mode when thrown into my bag - so the EVF does not gain itself up.
My guess is Panasonic did not envision this problem happening - that or they simply did not think most folks would run into this or care if they did.
The workaround to this would be to leave the camera in LCD and have to press the EVF button when you need the camera - but this also involves a delay (though maybe less than the EVF issue presents). I suppose you could leave the camera in image preview mode and then only need to half press the shutter release button to get back to the EVF but I am not sure what happens when the camera is left in image preview for an extended period of time - will have to experiment with this...
Anyone else experience this problem? Has anyone thought of a good workaround?
Cheers,
One of my concerns before buying this camera was whether I would miss the automatic LCD/EVF switchover but I thought it wouldn't be such a big deal as I mainly use EVF mode anyway and don't chimp that much.
What I didn't expect is that the lack of automatic switchover creates an issue with the EVF as follows:
If I leave my camera in my bag ready to shoot (ie camera ON and lens cap removed) and whip it out to take a photo, the EVF will "white out" for a few seconds before you can see anything.
This seems to be a repercussion of the EVF gaining up while in the bag since it sees very little light. Once you pull out the camera into proper light, it takes the EVF a while to gain back down to a viewable level. This creates a significant lag when you sometimes need to shoot something that is moving or a scene that is transient in nature.
This does not happen on the G1 where the camera will automatically switch over to LCD mode when thrown into my bag - so the EVF does not gain itself up.
My guess is Panasonic did not envision this problem happening - that or they simply did not think most folks would run into this or care if they did.
The workaround to this would be to leave the camera in LCD and have to press the EVF button when you need the camera - but this also involves a delay (though maybe less than the EVF issue presents). I suppose you could leave the camera in image preview mode and then only need to half press the shutter release button to get back to the EVF but I am not sure what happens when the camera is left in image preview for an extended period of time - will have to experiment with this...
Anyone else experience this problem? Has anyone thought of a good workaround?
Cheers,