Distribution of the individual DMs for DCEP_Fs in the LMC based on distances calculated using (i) the ABL in the form of Eqs. (1) and (2) (top panels, blue histograms), (ii) the ABL in the form of Eqs. (3) and (4) (middle panels, green histograms), (iii) the ABL in the form of Eqs. (5) and (6) (bottom panels, red histograms), and the NIR photometry of the VMC survey (see text for details). From left to right: the different panels show results obtained for three different values of the Gaia parallax zero-point offset: Δϖ = 0.049, 0.0615 and 0.070 mas. The vertical solid line shows the LMC distance modulus by Pietrzyński et al. (2019); the dashed lines represent its 1σ uncertainty.