Changing display settings

[Matthew Nayman]

Yeah, seems like right behind the power wheel there is a lot of undeveloped land.. coulda put a frame-rate toggle, Gain wheel and OIS toggle there...

[Noel Evans]

Was just thinking about the OIS yesterday. A button would have been great.

[Stu Siegal]

Originally Posted by Chris Hurd

When you set the zoom display option to "off" and close out the Custom Display menu, you're still operating with the default display items. You'll have to press the "Disp." button (above the Mag and Peaking buttons) in order to activate your chosen Custom Display options. No more zoom bar, even when you're zooming.

There are four different stages that cycle through the Disp. button each time you press it. For more information about Custom Displays and how they work, see this thread:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=80269

Hope this helps,

Hey Chris,

I'm having the exact same experience as Bill Pryor in that thread:

"I tweaked all the display settings the way I want and everything works properly--except for the zoom bar. I can't get rid of it, no can I change it to just numbers, although if you turn the wheel off manual to one of the automatic shooting functions, it goes away."

Figured out the cycling through the display buttons early on, and it works for everything else - for example, I shut off the white balance indicator, and it goes away as expected, did the same for the xlr indicator - but the zoom button stays no matter what.

Same as Bill, this is only in manual mode. In any of the other modes, the zoom bar disappears. Is this a bug?

[Chris Hurd]

Hi Stu,

I've moved your post from the Firmware Wishlist thread over to this one, which is more appropriate for discussing your issue. I have an XH A1 here and I'm not able to duplicate your problem. Here are my steps:

1. In the Custom Functions menu, I changed #12 Zoom Indicator to 00 (Bar), applied the set and indicated "active" before closing the menu.

2. In the Custom Displays menu, I changed #03 Zoom to 00 (Off), hit return and closed the menu.

3. At this point, the Zoom indicator still appears when I toggle the zoom rocker or turn the zoom ring. This is normal because the Custom Display hasn't been activated yet.

4. Now I push the Disp. button one time. My Custom Display settings are now active. The Zoom indicator goes away completely and does not show at all, even when I toggle the zoom rocker or turn the zoom ring.

5. I confirmed that it works this way in each of the M, A, Tv and Av program modes.

6. Each time I press the Disp. button, it cycles through the four stages I mentioned previously... All On, Custom Display, Grids & Markers Only, All Off.

Can you check your camera and verify that this is how it's working for you? When you cycle through the Disp. button, are you seeing the difference between all four stages of the display options?

[Stu Siegal]

Hi Chris,

I'm following your directions to a T (those were my settings to begin with, but I triple checked), and the bar won't go away in M mode. It does in all the others.
All my other custom display settings display correctly in M mode, but the zoom bar stays. It's not active, but it is there. In every other mode it is gone.

This seems to be exactly what Bill is experiencing.

Any guesses? Could this be a firmware thing? This is day one with this cam for me - should I be swapping it out for another unit?

[Raymond Toussaint]

Are you sure it is not the iris bar? I set zoom to numbers Z0 to Z99 and do not see a zoom bar in Manual mode during zooms. I can see a bar that is showing the iris point and that bar disappears if I zoom ...

[Stu Siegal]

OK, egg on face time.

The zoom bar does disappear. What takes its place is the exposure bar. I got rid of it with the Cam 2 settings.

Thanks Chris.

[Chris Hurd]

Originally Posted by Raymond Toussaint

Are you sure it is not the iris bar? I set zoom to numbers Z0 to Z99 and do not see a zoom bar in Manual mode during zooms. I can see a bar that is showing the iris point and that bar disappears if I zoom ...

When you set the zoom indicator to numbers, then you might see an exposure bar but you're not going to see a zoom bar. The option for the zoom indicator from within the Custom Function menu is a choice between Z numbers or the zoom bar. You can have either one or the other but not both. This isn't the same thing as the exposure indicator bar, however both bars are displayed in the same part of the screen.

[Raymond Toussaint]

That is what I said ... the zoom bar is gone and the iris bar is there If you want.

[Chris Hurd]

I misunderstood what you were saying. My apologies.