PanHay Posted July 16, 2024 Share #1 Posted July 16, 2024 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hands up, I’m new to photography and the D-Lux 8 is my first camera. I’m enrolled on a camera course that has taken me up to intermediate level and I’m happy using the camera in manual mode, with Auto focus on. What I would like to do is to lock the exposure then move to the subject, press the shutter and focus. Am I doing something wrong or is there another method I am missing? (Camera menu - AF set to single, exposure spot & centre weighted) AE-L & AF-L on: Thumbwheel button pressed - AF lock icon & AF is locked Shutter button ½ pressed - holds exposure (no AE lock icon) AE-L on: Thumbwheel - no action (as far as I can tell) Shutter button (½) - holds exposure (no AE icon) AF-L on: Thumbwheel - AF lock (AF icon) Shutter button (½) - holds focus whilst pressed (pages 106, 107 in the manual) When set to P-A-S the AE-L function appears to work, but obviously missing the manual mode. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PanHay Posted July 17, 2024 Author Share #2 Posted July 17, 2024 Just had a response from Leica and exposure lock isnt available in M mode Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chef Posted July 17, 2024 Share #3 Posted July 17, 2024 2 hours ago, PanHay said: Just had a response from Leica and exposure lock isnt available in M mode Why would you need it if you control the 3 exposure variables? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jk1002 Posted July 17, 2024 Share #4 Posted July 17, 2024 In M you can still let the Iso run on Auto, I use that actually quiet a bit on my other Leicas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einst_Stein Posted July 17, 2024 Share #5 Posted July 17, 2024 Even in M mode, I would like the camera to override my setting if there is something better! No, just a joke! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrMi Posted July 17, 2024 Share #6 Posted July 17, 2024 FWIW, M mode with Auto ISO is not manual mode. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted July 17, 2024 Share #7 Posted July 17, 2024 Advertisement (gone after registration) I guess one can do auto iso M mode with the DL8 right? Just asking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrMi Posted July 17, 2024 Share #8 Posted July 17, 2024 1 hour ago, lct said: I guess one can do auto iso M mode with the DL8 right? Just asking. Yes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtwo Posted July 17, 2024 Share #9 Posted July 17, 2024 7 hours ago, Le Chef said: Why would you need it if you control the 3 exposure variables? I put Shutter, Aperture and ISO all in “A” mode. When you press the shutter release halfway, if you listen closely, you can hear them all fighting it out deep within the bowels of the camera. 😉 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrMi Posted July 18, 2024 Share #10 Posted July 18, 2024 4 hours ago, Foxtwo said: I put Shutter, Aperture and ISO all in “A” mode. When you press the shutter release halfway, if you listen closely, you can hear them all fighting it out deep within the bowels of the camera. 😉 They are all arguing about triangles 😜. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjans Posted July 22, 2024 Share #11 Posted July 22, 2024 Found an informative YT-video of Leica Australia explaining the menu settings, D-Lux 8 Menus" width="200" data-embed-src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/p5Itd_em15Q?feature=oembed"> 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianforber Posted July 23, 2024 Share #12 Posted July 23, 2024 On 7/16/2024 at 4:41 PM, PanHay said: Hands up, I’m new to photography and the D-Lux 8 is my first camera. I’m enrolled on a camera course that has taken me up to intermediate level and I’m happy using the camera in manual mode, with Auto focus on. What I would like to do is to lock the exposure then move to the subject, press the shutter and focus. Am I doing something wrong or is there another method I am missing? (Camera menu - AF set to single, exposure spot & centre weighted) AE-L & AF-L on: Thumbwheel button pressed - AF lock icon & AF is locked Shutter button ½ pressed - holds exposure (no AE lock icon) AE-L on: Thumbwheel - no action (as far as I can tell) Shutter button (½) - holds exposure (no AE icon) AF-L on: Thumbwheel - AF lock (AF icon) Shutter button (½) - holds focus whilst pressed (pages 106, 107 in the manual) When set to P-A-S the AE-L function appears to work, but obviously missing the manual mode. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Welcome to photography in general and the wacky world of Leica in particular! Hope you fall in love with both. If you check out the Events and Member meetings thread you’ll see a planned meeting in London in August which you might be interested in. If not, feel free to drop me a line and see if you want to meet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gharel Posted July 24, 2024 Share #13 Posted July 24, 2024 Anyone else having an issue where the camera takes a long time to shut off and retract the lens? It always takes at least 3s and sometimes takes up to 10. Wondering if I'm doing something wrong. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gharel Posted July 25, 2024 Share #14 Posted July 25, 2024 21 hours ago, gharel said: Anyone else having an issue where the camera takes a long time to shut off and retract the lens? It always takes at least 3s and sometimes takes up to 10. Wondering if I'm doing something wrong. I think I figured out that it's related to the FOTOS connection to my Pixel 7. If I disable it then the camera turns off much more consistently and closer to the 3s mark 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meka Posted January 29 Share #15 Posted January 29 My D Lux 8 is a pain. Shutdown takes too long, sometimes over 20 seconds. Why? There is no consistency to this. It is very annoying. Time for update ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred67 Posted January 30 Share #16 Posted January 30 DLux8 switch off time - Leica D-Lux / Digilux / V-Lux / C-Lux - Leica Forum Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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