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Compression Setting
I sent my camera to Panasonic (which is a whole nother topic to discuss panasonics absolute pitafull service center where I got my camera back in worse shape then it went out) for the new upgrade for the the dark compression. Why in the hell does this have one called normal and one for dark this seems to be a function you would want on all the time! And is it normal that I have to keep going in and turning it on everytime I power on and off?
Kevin
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1 Reply
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Kevin,
It definately is a fatal flaw in the Dark Compression feature that it resets to “off” when you pwer-down. As you know this creates a sitiuation where you must remember, and have time to reset it on power-up or else you’ll have Dark Compression continuity issues. I don’t have any great faith that this will ever be corrected, as there are other software issues just as pressing that were ignored in the one and only software upgrade so far, and the persistant rumours of new models abound.
There is however good reasons to use it and/or not to use it. If your scenes contain many highlights such as day exteriors as opposed to dark scenes, you do not want the Dark Compression on, you want to avail yourself of the full range of compression in the highlight areas.
JS
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