Leica M10-P 'Auto Review' duration?

[David Craig]

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I have just taken delivery of my Leica M10-P and have a question about 'Auto Review'. Mine is set to 5 seconds.

After most exposures the screen blanks after 5 seconds (as expected) but, sometimes, it remains on the display until I half press the shutter button. Why does this happen?

I have done a few tests and note that the 'Auto Review' image remains on the display after 5 seconds if I have (accidentally) pressed the bottom segment of the 'Directional Pad'. Is this normal? Is there any way around this (other than turning 'Auto Review' off)?

Would greatly appreciate your input and advice.

David

[Peter Kilmister]

Auto review is only an immediate assistance because the capture is a DNG and will need post processing. Unless you wish to "chimp" there is very little value. You can get some idea about composition, but that's it. Maybe it only stays on because you have pressed to keep looking? My M10-P does that if, like yesterday, I took a photo for someone else and wanted the other person to say if it was OK in principle.

Let me explain ... a lady wanted a photo to use as a basis for a painting. All she wanted was a mobile phone picture. I had my M10-P and offered her a 'proper camera' shot. She looked at the 'chimp' screen as I enlarged it for her. Once she was happy I developed it later. Once sent via email she replied, "Wow." 

@David Craig Welcome to the forum and welcome to the M10-P. If you are near Sussex then let's make contact via direct messaging. I am aiming to get a few Leica users to visit Chichester Harbour in April for a "Meet". It is all in the planning stage because of tides and diaries.

[adan]

9 hours ago, David Craig said:

I have just taken delivery of my Leica M10-P and have a question about 'Auto Review'. Mine is set to 5 seconds.

After most exposures the screen blanks after 5 seconds (as expected) but, sometimes, it remains on the display until I half press the shutter button. Why does this happen?

I have done a few tests and note that the 'Auto Review' image remains on the display after 5 seconds if I have (accidentally) pressed the bottom segment of the 'Directional Pad'. Is this normal? Is there any way around this (other than turning 'Auto Review' off)?

Would greatly appreciate your input and advice.

David

This is normal behavior. Although I never use Autoreview myself, so I had to reset my camera to experiment. I have a plain-vanilla M10, BTW.

Pressing either the up or down arrow while a picture is displayed in Autoreview puts the review into "Hold" mode - the picture doesn't disappear after 1, 2, or 5 seconds.

In any review mode, the up/down arrows are programmed to add or delete a star symbol in the image - ⭐ - to "mark" the picture for deletion or simply to find it easily.

(This can be found near the end of the "reviewing pictures" section of the camera user manual.)

If you only press the down-arrow, nothing appears to happen (since there is no star to delete) - but it still "holds" the image review.

This "Hold" can be cancelled either by pressing the shutter button slightly (as you discovered) - or - by pressing the "[PLAY]" button to the left of the LCD. Or, of course, by turning the camera off.

Outside of persuading Leica to rewrite the firmware (the camera "operating system"), no, nothing I know of can be done to prevent this.

Except to be careful where you put your fingers (or more likely, thumb).

It is, BTW, a minor "bug" - in that the manual says pictures can be marked only from PLAY review. But as we've both discovered - the actual camera firmware does allow marking a picture in Autoreview as well.

Someone here (not me) can probably tell you how to report software bugs to Leica.

[David Craig]

Thanks Peter and Adan - that's really helpful. I don't find this the easiest Leica to carry/hold without accidentally pressing buttons on the back.  

I wonder if a 'thumb rest' reduces the tendency for this to happen?

 

[lucerne]

David.

In my opinion based on experience, fitting a Thumbs Up into the hot shoe of the M10 completely changes the balance and makes gripping more comfortable.  
genuine and clones are available for the M10 on our favourite shopping site. (UK).

Edited November 30, 2019 by lucerne