peterm1
Veteran
One of my pet dislikes in mirrorless cameras (it's not a pet hate - my dislike is not THAT strong I suppose - perhaps "frustration" would be a better word) is the over reliance on focus peaking. I guess this is because it is new and is therefore thought to be marketable. But my frustration with focus peaking is that if I set the sensitivity to a low setting, quite often nothing at all appears in the finder to confirm focus unless there happens to be high contrast in the image. With low contrast images you can forget about focus peaking if you have set it to low in an effort to be precise. Alternatively, if I set focus peaking sensitivity to a higher setting, in this case too much seems to be in focus. In either event the only way to confirm WHICH bit of the image has maximum focus is to enlarge the image in the finder and then use the mark 1 human eyeball. All of this slows down shooting far too much and effectively means I am only using focus peaking to get approximate focus at best, then I need to complete the job using my eye. Not a good use of technology.
Something I would dearly love in mirrorless cameras is the kind of focus confirmation found in my Nikon D700 DSLR which has an exceedingly effective system. With the Nikon, to manually focus you point the centre focus point where you want it, turn the focus ring on the lens and then a small white dot lights up in the viewfinder confirming that the subject is correctly focused. THATS IT! This works with both chipped lenses and non chipped lenses and is accurate, reliable and quick - all I have to do is look for the focus confirmation dot. I have seldom missed a shot using this system and its far, far, far superior to bloody useless focus peaking which is yet another example of camera makers over complicating things in the hope that they will sell product. And I suppose it is also that camera makers prefer to sell to the vast myriad of dumb asses out there who would not understand how to use the D700 style focus confirmation. All a part of dumbing down of society and compensating by designing so-called smart technology.
Something I would dearly love in mirrorless cameras is the kind of focus confirmation found in my Nikon D700 DSLR which has an exceedingly effective system. With the Nikon, to manually focus you point the centre focus point where you want it, turn the focus ring on the lens and then a small white dot lights up in the viewfinder confirming that the subject is correctly focused. THATS IT! This works with both chipped lenses and non chipped lenses and is accurate, reliable and quick - all I have to do is look for the focus confirmation dot. I have seldom missed a shot using this system and its far, far, far superior to bloody useless focus peaking which is yet another example of camera makers over complicating things in the hope that they will sell product. And I suppose it is also that camera makers prefer to sell to the vast myriad of dumb asses out there who would not understand how to use the D700 style focus confirmation. All a part of dumbing down of society and compensating by designing so-called smart technology.
