Q2: EVF-LCD switching for video

[setuporg]

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Looks like you need to use the touch screen on the Q2 to switch to video mode.  That interferes with my usually EVF-only mode, and the camera is in the full case anyways.  I have to switch the EVF-LCD to Auto before video, switch to the video, take it, and return back to EVF after.  I also have to open the hanging door on the case and then close it.  This is mighty inconvenient.  Are there faster ways to switch to video, and failing that, to toggle EVF-only with one button? 

[Stephen_C]

38 minutes ago, setuporg said:

Are there faster ways to switch to video, and failing that, to toggle EVF-only with one button? 

It may not be faster, but repeated presses of the back button (in the middle of the "joystick") will take you into video mode in one of the settings.

Stephen

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The good news is that you won't be inadvertently switching into video mode when you don't want to. I actually appreciate that it's difficult to switch.

[setuporg]

19 hours ago, Stephen_C said:

It may not be faster, but repeated presses of the back button (in the middle of the "joystick") will take you into video mode in one of the settings.

 

I never understood what "pressing repeatedly" means.  How many times?  How fast?

[Stephen_C]

3 hours ago, setuporg said:

I never understood what "pressing repeatedly" means.  How many times?  How fast?

See page 52 of the downloadable manual. Just try it—it's quite easy!

Stephen

 

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[marchyman]

17 hours ago, setuporg said:

 I never understood what "pressing repeatedly" means.  How many times?  How fast?

Every time you press the button you are selecting the "next" display option.   Speed is irrelevant.  Press it once a second or once a day -- a press will bring you to the next option in the cycle of three option mentioned in the post above.

[setuporg]

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Yeah that works even though a bit weird.  A dedicated button would have been much cleaner.