Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 touchscreen

ubern00b · 27 Mar 2012 at 09:38

Hi all

I purchased my girlfriend this camera (second hand, 2 months old, everything was confirmed working at the time) for her upcoming trip to China and Australia. She is currently in China and has emailed me to say that the touch screen no longer works. She can still use the camera as a point and click but she cannot change any settings.

My question is this: does this camera have a button or setting that "locks" the touch screen? This is the only thing I can think of, other than it actually being broken. Any help is appreciated

alexthecheese · 27 Mar 2012 at 13:00

Someone commenting about it on another website:

"Yes you can definitely disable the touch screen facility, I played around with one in store."

ubern00b · 27 Mar 2012 at 13:56

Thanks, I will download the manual and see if I can find it in there.

alexthecheese · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:08

I did actually have a look for you, but couldn't see any mention of altering the settings of the touch screen itself, but good luck hope you find it.

Steve M · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:50

I have a G3 and i'm sure you can disable the touchscreen.

ubern00b · 27 Mar 2012 at 15:12

Steve_M: if you can have a look when you are around your camera for me I would be forever indebted. I haven't managed to find anything in the manual but its also hard to relay what the manual says into real world actions when the camera isn't in front of you, so I may have just overlooked it.

Alpherah · 27 Mar 2012 at 15:48

These might have been tuned off in the menu? iirc the menu isn't touch enabled so will still be accessible.

Custom -> Touch settings
Touch quick menu (on/off) - enable or disable the touch-based Quick Menu
Defocus control (on/off) - whether you can use the background blur feature using the touchscreen
Touch shutter (on/off) - whether you can take a photo by touching an area on the LCD
Touch AF (on/off) - whether you can focus by touching the LCD
Touch guide (on/off) - whether descriptions of the touch features are shown on the LCD
Touch scroll (Low, high speed) - how quickly you swipe through images in playback mode

Also might help:

Setup menu -> Calibration (For the touch screen)

ubern00b · 27 Mar 2012 at 16:22

Can these menus be accessed with up/down arrows somewhere on the camera? I assume so, I have just never physically held the thing!

Alpherah · 27 Mar 2012 at 16:30

The main menu, iirc, is controlled with the physical buttons yes.

-edit-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNz-rhjy4Ag

jump to 4:40 or so, main menu operated with the physical buttons!

ubern00b · 27 Mar 2012 at 16:52

Excellent thanks all so much for your help

EDIT: She now confesses she dropped it. Explains that then, thanks everyone but I am fairly sure this is going to be a hardware fault now.