Manual Focus Assist on A7s
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HeldvomFeld
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really? how do you do that? does it work with ef adapters or just with native FE lenses?
Andrew Stone
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Samuel, I like quite a few others with the A7s use lenses including zoom lenses that are completely manual. No focus assist and so on. I am taking about say Nikon lenses.
I am trying to interpret what you are saying here. Can you tell us this, can you do motorized zoom in and out using the camera with Sony lenses on the A7s?
I am trying to interpret what you are saying here. Can you tell us this, can you do motorized zoom in and out using the camera with Sony lenses on the A7s?
Samuel H
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I never talked about motorized zoom, no idea if it has it or not, all my lenses are primes.
AFAIK, with every lens you try, you'll have focus peaking and zoom-in available at the press of a button. So my answer for the original question would be that you have manual focus assist on every lens, not only FE lenses.
If you use E-mount lenses, you'll also be able to go directly into digital zoom-in mode (the focus assist thing) just by touching the focus ring. It works on my Sigma 19mm f/2.8 and 30mm f/2.8, which are E lenses. No idea about any other lens, everything else I own is vintage. And it's just a matter of how you trigger the zoom-in mode: with my vintage primes I just click a button to go to zoom-in mode, it's not a hassle at all.
AFAIK, with every lens you try, you'll have focus peaking and zoom-in available at the press of a button. So my answer for the original question would be that you have manual focus assist on every lens, not only FE lenses.
If you use E-mount lenses, you'll also be able to go directly into digital zoom-in mode (the focus assist thing) just by touching the focus ring. It works on my Sigma 19mm f/2.8 and 30mm f/2.8, which are E lenses. No idea about any other lens, everything else I own is vintage. And it's just a matter of how you trigger the zoom-in mode: with my vintage primes I just click a button to go to zoom-in mode, it's not a hassle at all.