What can't you do with your Nex7 that you wish you could figure out how to do

Pablito

Pablito

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Maybe someone knows how to do this but I can't set it so it uses only the EVF during shooting mode and only the LCD screen for playback of images. The choices seem to be only automatic switching, EVF or LCD.

And I want to change the button that brings up magnification during manual focusing to soft key A. Can't seem to figure out that one either.

Admittedly I am not too good with this stuff so I ask for your patience and indulgence.
 
Pablito said:
Maybe someone knows how to do this but I can't set it so it uses only the EVF during shooting mode and only the LCD screen for playback of images. The choices seem to be only automatic switching, EVF or LCD.
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This is my dream for the 5N. I don't think it is possible, though I would be VERY happy to be shown otherwise!
 
Hey ... it's just taken me a week and a half to figure out how to turn off the LCD of my OMD!

Good luck with this! :D
 
There is a little button on the right side of the "pentaprism". Press it and it will turn off your LCD.
 
Pablito said:
Maybe someone knows how to do this but I can't set it so it uses only the EVF during shooting mode and only the LCD screen for playback of images. The choices seem to be only automatic switching, EVF or LCD.

And I want to change the button that brings up magnification during manual focusing to soft key A. Can't seem to figure out that one either.

Admittedly I am not too good with this stuff so I ask for your patience and indulgence.
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I am pretty sure that Soft Key A (the one just beneath the AF/AEL toggle) cannot be reassigned, and will always be the menu button. As far as the viewfinder/LCD situation, it is exactly as you say; if it is set to viewfinder, you have to review through it.

When I am using MF lenses via an adapter, I change the AF/MF button to be the button for changing magnification. I do that by going into Setup > Custom Key Settings > AF/MF Button. When I am using AF lenses like my E-Sonnar, I change it back.

Oh, and you may want to check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heL9GRysvI&feature=related I found a couple of days ago. I learned something useful from it; maybe you will as well. I also recommend that you download the a Handbook from Sony here http://esupport.sony.com/CA/p/model-home.pl?mdl=NEX7B&template_id=1&region_id=3&tab=manuals#/manualsTab. It is somewhat long and not exactly clear, but it does help.

Cheers,
 
kbg32 said:
There is a little button on the right side of the "pentaprism". Press it and it will turn off your LCD.
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That isn't really as straight forward as everyone makes it sound ... first of all you you have to disable the eye sensor that switches the display from screen to EVF ... then that button will perform that function! Prior to doing this it brings up the super control panel.
 
I'd like to know if it is possible to have the Nex-7 perform the motion blur flash trick of the CLE described here, on the Cameraquest site:

"For example, I used to shoot controlled blur-plus-flash action shots, fully automatically, via the following trick:

I'd set up my two 360PX units, joined by an "extra-long" Cable CD I had made by cutting off the ends of the Minolta cable and splicing in about 20 feet of four-conductor telephone cord. One of the units would go on a light stand, the other on the camera.

First, though, I'd prepare the camera by putting a strip of masking tape in the flash shoe, so it covered the sync (center) and flash-ready (left) terminals, but NOT the TTL (right) terminal.

Then I'd dim the room lights and tell the model (usually a ballet dancer) to start moving. With the flash-ready terminal taped over, the CLE's auto exposure system would set a long shutter speed appropriate for the ambient light. I'd watch the action through the viewfinder during exposure (impossible on an SLR, of course!)

When I saw exactly the peak action I wanted, I'd press the "test" button on the camera-mounted flash. Both flash units would fire; the TTL system would control them for correct flash exposure; and the sudden burst of light would terminate the ambient-light exposure immediately afterward!

The result would be a long, liquid-looking blur terminated by a sharp flash image of the exact pose I had chosen. Slick, huh? No, you can't do this with "second-curtain sync" because you don't have exact control over WHEN the flash exposure is made. But with the CLE, it was a cinch!"

I'd like to do the same trick but use a radio trigger if possible; I've been playing with the hotshoe adapter and the cowboy studio triggers to good effect but haven't been able to do what is described above.
 
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