Typ 109 iZoom

[graeme_hutton]

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Could someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong? I fancy trying the ‘iZoom’ feature on my 109 but note it is greyed out and unavailable in the menu. I’ve been round and round the manual trying to figure out what I’ve overridden to cause this, but to no avail.

 

Thanks

 

Graeme

[BrianH8er]

Does p173 not guide you?

[graeme_hutton]

Does p173 not guide you?

Followed it to the letter I think. Just get a greyed reading which I cannot select.

 

Thanks though!

 

Graeme

[Andreas Braun]

Followed it to the letter I think. Just get a greyed reading which I cannot select.

 

Thanks though!

 

Graeme

Did you deactivate RAW, either solo or combined with JPG?. See last line of the notes on p173.

 

Andreas

[graeme_hutton]

Did you deactivate RAW, either solo or combined with JPG?. See last line of the notes on p173.

 

Andreas

Ah, thank you but that would be a deal breaker if I can’t shoot RAW.

 

Graeme

[Andreas Braun]

Ah, thank you but that would be a deal breaker if I can’t shoot RAW.

 

Graeme

I don't consider it a deal breaker. You can always crop from the RAW in order to simulate the iZoom, because the iZoom is nothing else than a croped image which is upscaled to full pixel count.The only advantage of iZoom is the ability to choose the crop already while taking the image.

 

And let's face it: even 150mm focal length is by no means sufficient to get really close. This would at least require about 300mm or - better - 500mm.

 

Andreas

[graeme_hutton]

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I don't consider it a deal breaker. You can always crop from the RAW in order to simulate the iZoom, because the iZoom is nothing else than a croped image which is upscaled to full pixel count.The only advantage of iZoom is the ability to choose the crop already while taking the image.

 

And let's face it: even 150mm focal length is by no means sufficient to get really close. This would at least require about 300mm or - better - 500mm.

 

Andreas

Just to be clear Andreas - Are you saying I have to deactivate RAW and only shoot Jpeg to allow iZoom?

 

Thank you again,

 

Graeme

[BrianH8er]

He is saying one has to use ONLY JPG. This is what p163 says. All the conditions where it does not work.

 

Most if not all the iFunctions only work with JPG.

 

Suggest you try it and then form an opinion you may be able to live without RAW. Life is a compromise.

[Andreas Braun]

Just to be clear Andreas - Are you saying I have to deactivate RAW and only shoot Jpeg to allow iZoom?

 

Thank you again,

 

Graeme

Well Graeme, iZoom does indeed work only if no quality setting with RAW is selected. To enable iZoom only JPG-settings are allowed. AFIK, this applies to all cameras.

 

I've arranged a simple workaround: one of the programmable function buttons can be used for the "Quality" selection (RAW, RAW+JPG, JPG). With the JPG function selected the iZoom now is set to permanently "ON". If you now select a RAW or RAW+JPG function iZoom will be disabled but enabled automatically if a JPG-only function is selected. Thus this function button works like a toggle switch for enabling/disabling iZoom.

 

Because I'm using iZoom rather seldom I can accept the fact that this can only be done without RAW. Although the D-Lux JPG-output is quite acceptable it is rather seldom that some tweaking would not result in even better images. But if you start processing the JPGs it's much more rewarding to process generally from the RAWs. Thus the RAWs are the way to go and the restriction with the iZoom on JPGs is only minute.

 

Andreas

[graeme_hutton]

Very smart Andreas thank you. Thank you also Brian for your clarification.

 

Regards

 

Graeme

[graeme_hutton]

Set it up as you suggested Andreas and working a treat now. Won’t use it much but it’s handy to know it’s there if needed.

 

Best

 

Graeme

[Andreas Braun]

Set it up as you suggested Andreas and working a treat now. Won’t use it much but it’s handy to know it’s there if needed.

 

Best

 

Graeme

That's my usage as well. Glad you like it. BTW, I'm using Fn2 [WIFI] for this application. Never use WIFI because it transfers only JPGs and it's kind of cumbersome.

 

Andreas

[graeme_hutton]

That's my usage as well. Glad you like it. BTW, I'm using Fn2 [WIFI] for this application. Never use WIFI because it transfers only JPGs and it's kind of cumbersome.

 

Andreas

That’s what I chose too.

 

G