I made the focus peaking setting on the down button of the dial. It's not a one touch but the whole control between on/off and low, medium and high. Actually that is what you want anyway bright light use low and in the shade or darkness levels you'll need to go medium or high. High seems rare though
I made C2my turn off LCD switch
You do have the sliding scale there that tells you if your under or over. You can also have that histo in finder LCD display show on and than off through your finder LCD options. You just have to move the dial to the next screen.
- Yes, the down button of the dial is good for the focus peaking control. Nice to be able to get to it without going into the menus.
- I see a way to assign "deactivate monitor" to the C2 button, but what I was looking for is a way to tell the camera to turn off display auto-switching and set LCD or EVF only operation without having to dive into the menus. That would save power, I think.
- Ah, I see the manual metering scale indicator now. It's pretty subtle... missed it before. You have to be within a three stop range of nominal or it just flashes arrows at the end of the bar. And I just checked that it indicates correctly regardless of whether you have the "Live View Display - Picture Setting Effect" off or on. (With the setting off, the histogram does its job about telling you the distribution of values but doesn't tell you anything about whether you have the right exposure setting...) This is good!
The "Graphic Display" indicator screen is functionless for me since it depends upon aperture information from the lens, and I'm only using adapted manual lenses.
Thanks Guy! Very helpful. I've got the camera set up pretty close to what I want now, within its control limits. Just back from my first walk with it, using the Summicron-R 90mm f/2 mostly, and I have to say it's the first time I've seen what that lens can do on a digital sensor properly. Making me very happy.
G