Images review playback - odd behaviour

[Shavou]

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Very odd behaviour just noticed today.  When reviewing images if I press the ok button the lcd screen gets rid of all the info and just the photo alone is displayed. This is ok. But then if I want to get back to the screen with the info overlay I’d need to click twice. If I click once, nothing happens. This does not seem right !!! Is it just my M11 or it it normal? 

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[Evan-Liu]

My M11 just clicks the OK button once and then gets back the info, I think that is switching the display full-screen mode or the info mode, which also can do this by tapping the screen once to toggle the info show on or off.

[Evan-Liu]

jqian6 says that is correct, "Clicking the OK button will switch info profile."

If I have set two info profiles to ON, then I need to click the button twice.

Edited February 4, 2023 by Evan-Liu

[LikameLeica]

6 hours ago, Shavou said:

Very odd behaviour just noticed today.  When reviewing images if I press the ok button the lcd screen gets rid of all the info and just the photo alone is displayed. This is ok. But then if I want to get back to the screen with the info overlay I’d need to click twice. If I click once, nothing happens. This does not seem right !!! Is it just my M11 or it it normal? 

To add to what has already been mentioned around this, I do think something is a bit off in the way it is working.  This is my understanding, but glad to be corrected.  The "Info Profiles" can be found in the "Capture Assistants" menu.  You are able to set-up from one to four profiles with various capturing assistant overlays while capturing photographs (e.g. grid, info bars, focus peaking, level gauge, clipping, and histogram).  While taking photographs you can rotate through your enabled "Info Profiles" to have different capturing assistance depending on your shooting scenario and preference. 

This is where I think things get a bit strange (glitchy), while previewing your already captured photographs.  If your camera is in the default factory settings, you will see an unobstructed view of the photographs.  However, if you have set-up "Info Profiles" pressing the center button will previewing photographs will cycle through the number of "Info Profiles" you have set-up and on.  However, there are certain capture assistants that will not show up in the preview of photographs including (Grid, focus peaking, and level gauge).  So if you have a "info Profile" with only these capture assistants turned on, you have to cycle through this but it does not display anything.  Since it does not display anything, it feels like you are pushing the center button unnecessarily.  Kind of confusing, but what I have discovered.  Not a major issue, but definitely something that I think would benefit from being cleaned up in a future firmware version.  In the user manual page 131, there is a bit of information on how this works.

[hmzimelka]

13 hours ago, Shavou said:

Very odd behaviour just noticed today.  When reviewing images if I press the ok button the lcd screen gets rid of all the info and just the photo alone is displayed. This is ok. But then if I want to get back to the screen with the info overlay I’d need to click twice. If I click once, nothing happens. This does not seem right !!! Is it just my M11 or it it normal? 

Mine does the same...

[Nimar]

2 hours ago, hmzimelka said:

Mine does the same...

Sounds like a bug. Don’t own a m11, but in the q2 it does the same thing. Though one click clears everything, one click brings up exposure info and the last click adds on the histogram. 
 

Perhaps it only shows histogram if you have that enabled in your capture assistance options. Though should change the cycle length from three to two. 
 

 

Edited February 4, 2023 by Nimar

[lct]

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17 hours ago, Shavou said:

When reviewing images if I press the ok button the lcd screen gets rid of all the info and just the photo alone is displayed. This is ok. But then if I want to get back to the screen with the info overlay I’d need to click twice. If I click once, nothing happens. This does not seem right !!! Is it just my M11 or it it normal?

Never happened to me. Did you update firmware to 1.6? Just curious.

[lct]

1 hour ago, jqian6 said:

it has nothing to do with firmware because it's not a bug, it's mis configuration.

Ah yes just seen what @LikameLeica wrote above sorry. 

Edited February 4, 2023 by lct

[Shavou]

Thanks everyone! It is indeed an mis-setting related to the user profiles !! Hopefully Leica will address this in the next firmware to have distinct user profiles for playback and shooting  

[Shavou]

Thanks everyone! It is indeed an mis-setting related to the user profiles !! Hopefully Leica will address this in the next firmware to have distinct user profiles for playback and shooting  

[Qlan]

46 minutes ago, jqian6 said:

to be honest I don't think Leica will address this "issue" neither should they. If a user wants two identical profiles, so be it. To enforce distinct profiles is just to much overreaching and overcomplicating the logics.

I agree this is not something worth "fixing", but if they want (I'm just being annoying here, don't take this seriously), it's super easy to detect that 2 profiles have same settings. As you calculated there are 64 combinations (2 to the power of 6), so only 6 bits of information is needed to store the settings of a profile, that's (rounded to) 1 byte. Since there are 4 profiles, this is as fast as 3 character/integer comparisons, which is to say essentially 0 computing power or storage needed 🙂

Edited February 4, 2023 by Qlan