Olympus XZ-1 Tips And Tricks Manual page 23

XZ-1 Tips page 23 of 29
focusing requires fine adjustments.
To achieve AFL, try one of the followings
1. Set the camera in AF, half-press to lock focus, press OK and L and switch to MF. You
focus is now locked. To switch back to AF, press OK and R.
2. Set the Scene mode to underwater and press Down for Focus Lock. The camera will
even show you a square where the focus is locked. But you will likely want to edit your
photo in RAW because you cannot use Natural Color mode.
Hold INFO down for a few seconds to get a temporary LCD brightness boost (only while
shooting, doesn't work in menus). You can only return the LCD to normal brightness by
either toggling into and out of Playback mode or turning the camera off.
ISO-less RAW
...from a post on Dpreview by rsbones
According to testing data of DxO, or as compiled at http://sensorgen.info, you can see
that the sensor in the XZ-1 has a very flat read noise profile. In other words, it's basically
an "ISO-less" camera, like the Nikon D7000. This means one can choose to shoot in raw
and basically ignore the iso setting all together and keep it at, say 100 or 200 and forget
about it. The only penalty might be that it is hard to use the lcd, but the benefit is that you
don't run the risk of clipping highlights the way the camera does when you set a higher
ISO number.
Then you use your raw converter to brighten the image a few steps so that it'll appear
exactly as it would have had you shot it with a higher iso setting, but since you can use
highlight protection in the software as you do this, you won't lose the highlights as you
would have had you let the camera clip them in the raw file.
I guess the way to use the camera with this strategy, would be to choose your aperture for
the DOF that you want. Choose the slowest shutter speed you can handle without blurring
so that you get the brightest exposure you can. Let the iso setting go up while