Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm using the Sony a7r. There are probably at least 2 issues. First is how awkward or necessary it is to adjust the system, and second how to use it so that it's accurate. The best I've been able to do in terms of setting up the camera is to set one of the functions on the Sony Function Button to peaking. That allows me to go directly to an adjustment screen that pops up on the left can pull it up in the viewfinder, then I select strength. It's a three-step process. I suppose part of the trick will be to just learn where the buttons are well enough that I don't have to think much about it, but it does add complexity. I like my old mechanical wheels better. Different cameras, of course, will have different approaches here. Aside from the mechanics of its use, exactly how to use it so it gives an accurate indication as to what is in focus is not entirely clear to me. I suspect all of these cameras have a lot in common on this issue. It seems like I first need to set it's strength for how it's going to be used. With the magnification, set to high works best. For non-magnification, High ends of having way too much shimmering away. In genera, it seems like high contrast edges -- like back lit things -- shimmer whether or not they are really that well in focus. One of me goals is to be able to do a focus stack easily. I hope I'll be able to learn how to see the range covered by each focus setting easily in the viewfinder -- with as few buttons to mess with as possible. At this point, I seem to still be better off knowing the meter distances to the specific elements and going to them via the distance scale. Removing the need to memorize and re-focus by using peaking would make the process faster. For a quick dual-focus, I have a chart taped to the top of the camera telling my the close setting needed for the f-stop. For a sweeping landscape, the dual focus if often all that is needed, and while the evf system that works about as fast as it did with the M9 at this point. The potential of the evf approach is much higher, however. Paul www.PaulRoark.com On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:40 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>wrote: > Thanks > > Which camera Paul? > > On the X-E1 you just have to press the (horizontal) 'wheel' and the image > pops up ... > > Hope this helps > > Ph > > > Le 24 f?vr. 14 ? 22:36, Paul Roark a ?crit : > > Excellent shots. >> >> I wish someone could tell me how to get a net benefit from focus peaking. >> I guess it's a learned skill, and one I have not quite learned yet. It >> seems like it almost needs an adjustment wheel on the camera to be able to >> easily and quickly adjust it to the specifics of the subject -- without >> having to remove the eye from the viewfinder and going into a menu. Too >> often I find it too strong, annoying and giving what I see as false >> in-focus signals with high contrast edges, but then in low contrast areas >> it seems too weak. >> >> Paul >> www.PaulRoark.com >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr >> >wrote: >> >> I tried my old Angenieux 70 x 3 at 210mm using focus peaking this >>> weekend. >>> >>> High ISO was necessary for speed as the X-E1 is probably not able to >>> resist the weight of a heavy lens without a tripod collar ... >>> >>> So this is handheld yet focus peaked. >>> >>> Here at f5.6 >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/album368/ >>> Angenieux+210+-5030.jpg.html >>> >>> And there at f22 >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/album368/Ang__ >>> nieux+f22-5016.jpg.html >>> >>> >>> Bien cordialement de Metz >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to >>> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. >>> NO ARCHIVE >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to > the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. > NO ARCHIVE > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >