I hate touch screens. Does it make sense to purchase this camera if you intend to deactivate the touch screen?
943942
Yes. One of the nice things about the G5 is that pretty much all of the functions are accessible via BOTH the touch screen and through the buttons. I find myself using the touch screen only rarely, though I do find the ability to tap a spot on the screen to set the AF point somewhat useful (you can do that with the buttons too). I'm not aware of any mission-critical features that requires use of the touch screen. The only thing that comes to mind is the user-programmable F4 and F5 buttons, which are virtual.
943943
The camera is a wonderful camera. So whether you deactivate touch screen or not, you'll still get great shots! I really don't use the touch screen on this one because you have a buttons you can use. I think Ice used the touch about 3 times so far because used to my old led screens being untouchable! Lol :0) hopes this helps!
943944
You have to go straight to the problem: why you need this camera?-price?portability?image quality?video...get straight to it and you find the main thing you need to pay attention to. Touchscreen is a very minor problem, and you can deactivate it by two clicks, one on the arrow opening the on-screen control panel, another on the deactivation of the touch function. But if in the future you can find that the touch function also has it role to play, and you will feel comfortable using it once get used to it, like I did.
943945
Camera perfectly works with keys not using touch screen at all. There are many customisations for function keys, so you can adjust as you need. But I haven't seen option to disable touchscreen. Myself I'm also used to key control, so mostly I use keys, but in some cases touchscreen (for example you can set focus area by touching object in screen).
262723
Go to your menu and scroll thru it until you see Touch Screen on and off. Touch the OK button on the camera and the Touch Screen will show off. Hope this helps.
560004
I own this Panasonic model camera. No, doing that would likely break the screen off.
1972523
No touchscreen. Still, a great choice. I love mine. Had it for about 2 weeks. It's been user friendly and flawless. Great balance of (quality) work and play features.
608753
Its not touchscreen, but its a nice computer, I own one. It takes up surprisingly little space, and is easy to set up. And the screen size is amazing. Good for movies. If you dont like the window of apps, you can change it to the traditional desktop look too.
677658
Many times I don't use the touch screen. I just use the keyboard and mouse. Never looked into actually deactivating it.
2248728
No. You dont want it anyways. Its a useless feature that constantly drains the cameras battery even when its powered off.
1034077
Nope, not this one. There's another similar model with touch screen available if it is still on the market
1459461
1. I am not a photography specialist, but this is the easiest to use and most comprehensive camera I have ever used. I have yet to use the touch screen. All I have needed has been on the dial. I hope this helps. I really love this camera.
1727330
It is not touchscreen enabled, which I don't find to be useful personally on a desktop, however it does have gesture controls that utilize the front facing camera, which allows you to use motions to move screens and bring up menus
257621
It is not a touch screen. In my opinion, not a big loss for how good this camera is in all other aspects.
738531
No, it`s not touch screen. Actually, the camera is aweful. Video quality is terrible and I stronly reccomend buying another camcorder.
757386
Yes...when you turn on the camera, on the left lower of the screen there is a finger pointer symbol. Touch it and then a menu comes up that lets you choose touch operation options. Nice.
2126719
Douglas, I am exactly like you. I'm still using my palm IIIx. It's somewhat crippled when I have memos that are too long in the Palm Desktop software. When I try to sync it up, then of course it truncates the entries. But I am totally with you in regards to the whole battery life thing. In my opinion, Palm, HP, and all the rest of have been producing total junk pda's that have everything in the world built into them, but for the most part, people wouldn't use. I think the whole Camera in a phone idea is the stupidest thing next to a submarine with a screen door. If I want to take a photograph, I'm not going to use a device that has a lens that is smaller than a pencil lead!!!! I will use a point & shoot digital with a lens that is AT LEAST an inch or so in diamter, or pull out my Digital SLR camera. I wish some company would produce a new Quality PDA that focuses on BATTERY LIFE and that doesn't have all of the stupid bells & whistles AND that lets the user replace the battery. In fact, I happen to like the AAA batteries. You can buy them at a gas station for cryign out loud. I have all of my information dating back to like 1995 in my palm desktop software. If I lost it, it would be like cutting off my leg. I have yet to find a PDA that I'm willing to sink money into though for the reasons I just mentioned.
1759437
This is the coolest little device I've seen in a while. We use it to take videos/pictures during family times for those unexpected and unposed moments. I've never had to click the screen on...I've never really thought about it because when I want the picture/video I just hit record and I've always got the moment. Good luck.
887643
Hello Phil. No touch screen - just big and very sweet picture quality. Great if you are into photography.
1014182
no. it also is a bit of a piece of crud. the touch screen also is a press not a touch. it is a good marketing campaign for a bad product. i hope you have found this helpful