Micro 4/3 Neat trick the LX100 can do

Jock Elliott

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The LX100 has a "filter" button the camera's top deck, which allows certain visual effects -- like monochrome, high key color, low key color -- to be applied when the image is captured. Among these are four different variations on monochrome. But the LX100 also has a software switch that allows an image with "normal" settings to be captured at the same time that the image with the filter is captured.

So, while you are shooting rough monochrome:

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Dynamic monochrome:

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or regular monochrome:

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You can capture this at the same time as a kind of backup in case you don't ultimately like the effect of the filter

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In addition, I noticed that there can be a slight lag in the viewfinder when panning around in rough monochrome filter mode, but I didn't notice it at all with the other monochrome filters.

Cheers, Jock
 
Nice find, definitely worth exploring.

Just a little information on the EVF lag in general: If you switch the Live View refresh to 60p, it's mostly gone (at least to my eyes). I assume this'll eat into battery performance a bit, but it's really a visible improvement.

M.
 
Nice find, definitely worth exploring.

Just a little information on the EVF lag in general: If you switch the Live View refresh to 60p, it's mostly gone (at least to my eyes). I assume this'll eat into battery performance a bit, but it's really a visible improvement.

M.

Thanks! Good to know. I have no problem with EVF performance at all under normal usage, but when the Rough Monochrome filter is engaged, things get weird. I will definitely experiment with your suggestion.

Cheers, Jock
 
The LX100 has a "filter" button the camera's top deck, which allows certain visual effects -- like monochrome, high key color, low key color -- to be applied when the image is captured. Among these are four different variations on monochrome. But the LX100 also has a software switch that allows an image with "normal" settings to be captured at the same time that the image with the filter is captured.

Jock,

I can't for the life of me FIND that software switch. How/where did you set it to capture a normal image in addition to a filter image?

Thanks,

Steve
 
Jock,

I can't for the life of me FIND that software switch. How/where did you set it to capture a normal image in addition to a filter image?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve,

I'm looking at my camera now, and I'll walk you through how I found the switch.

Put the shutter speed on A, the aperture on A, and the focus switch on the lens barrel on AF (I'm not sure that any of these settings make a difference, but let's make sure that we start from a place of common settings).

1. Turn the camera on.

2. Make sure the camera is in P mode.

3. Press the filter button

4. Click up or down to one of the filters.

5. Press Menu/Set to select one of the filters. (You won't be able to activate the software switch unless a filter is active.)

6. Press Menu/set again to select the menu options.

7. With the camera symbol highlighted at the upper left, click or use the scroll wheel until you get to page 3 in the camera settings list.

8. Just below the iResolution option you will find "Simultaneous record w/o filter. Press Menu/Set to turn it on or off.

That should do it, I think.

Please let me know if that works for you.

Cheers, Jock
 
WONDERFUL Jock! Thank you. Yes... works perfectly. I must have been up and down that seven page menu a dozen times but just somehow missed the "Simultaneous record w/o filter" option. DOH!

Thanks again,

Steve

Steve,

My pleasure. So often I am on the receiving end of help here. It's nice to be able to help a fellow photographer.

Cheers, Jock
 
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