Detailed guide / The most important settings/controls / 121
Shutter release button
The shutter release button (1.13) works in two stages.
Pressing it lightly (to the pressure point) activates
automatic focusing (see p. 131) and exposure meter-
ing (see p. 137) and control (see p. 134) and locks the
respective values determined (see p. 132), or acti-
vates the camera again and switches on the view-
finder/monitor (1.19/32) if it was previously in stand-
by mode (see p. 125).
Pressing the shutter release button all the way down
takes the picture or begins sound and/or video
recording. Both types of recording are transferred to
the memory card. Sound and video recordings are
ended by completely depressing the shutter release
button again.
Notes:
• The menu system can be used to select or set key
acknowledgement (response) tones and shutter
sound, and to adjust their volume (see p. 126).
• The shutter release button should be pressed
gently and not jerkily to prevent blurring. Before
completely depressing the shutter release button
make sure that focusing/autofocus (if switched on)
and exposure metering have been completed,
i.e. the green LED (2.1.11) lights up in the view-
finder/monitor. If you do not do this, out-of-focus
or blurred pictures are possible (see p. 131/132).
Viewfinder and monitor
The LEICA DIGILUX 2 has two LCDs (Liquid Crystal
Displays), one performs the viewfinder function (1.19)
and another in the form of the monitor (1.32). When
the camera is ready for operation one of them is
always switched on. Either of them can be used in
recording or review mode and they reproduce the
entire image field as well as the selected data and
information (see “The Displays”, p. 106).
Switching between electronic viewfinder and
monitor
To change the LCD press the
EVF/LCD
button (1.21).
This must be done separately for and in the recording
and review modes as switching affects only the mode
currently in use. Consequently, the LCD changes
when switching between the modes if the monitor has
been activated in one and the viewfinder in the other.
Note: Pictures that have been taken can also be
viewed immediately on the monitor even if the view-
finder was used (see “Viewing pictures with the VIEW
function”, p. 146).
Diopter settings in the electronic viewfinder
For optimum viewing of the subject and the displays
in the viewfinder, it is necessary to adjust the diopter
setting for your eye. To do this, use the click-stopped
roller (1.18) on the left next to the viewfinder window
(1.19) to set the viewfinder image so that you can see
it in sharply including the displays.
Switching the displays
The button to select the displays (
DISPLAY
, 1.22) is
used to select whether the viewfinder or monitor
image appears without or with function displays in the
recording modes, also with histogram (see p. 138), or
whether it appears only with gridlines.
In review mode, you can select between a monitor
screen without or with function displays or with
expanded function displays.
You scroll through the different display options in an
endless loop and select them by pressing the button
once or several times. The sequences:
In record mode
With function displays – with function displays
including histogram – with gridlines – without function
displays
In review mode
With function displays – with expanded function
displays – without function displays
