OTHER: Sony FS7 Focus Mag

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Andy9

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Anyone know if there there is any way to move the Focus Mag area without using the joystick on the side handle?

I have a regular camera op job for a company that uses their FS7s without the side handle.
 
I've owned my FS7 since the week they started shipping and have never used Focus Mag once. If you set up peaking correctly you'll never need Focus Mag and your life will be easier without it. Just a suggestion.
 
Focus mag.. I cant remember but I chucked away trhe side handle. So I guess you can move it.

It looks like the centre of a jpg compression 2 and is nearly useless. zebra and peaking are almost useless too!

Best of the bad options are a 1080 monitor.

Good option is FX6 with AF or a canon mirrorless with a nice EVF.
 
Ive always been baffled by your ability to get sharp stuff with tools that I find unusable. Most impressive.

Im well aware that on an 85 portrait, (having shot vista 35 for 40 years and owned an 85 1.4 before a car) one eye only will be sharp and I find peaking may illuminate on hair or whatever. Illuminating my knowledge that peaking is not really showing accurate focus.

Of course with the EX1 and 400px monitor and huge DOF peaking was the least worst of evils.

We have to agree that the 'focus bash' (punch in) is awful upscaled digital mush? (but on static objects it is useful)
 
morgan_moore said:
We have to agree that the 'focus bash' (punch in) is awful upscaled digital mush? (but on static objects it is useful)
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Focus Mag? Yes, it is ugly and useless. And completely impractical for focusing on anything that is moving when you want to maintain a decent composition. Peaking, baby, peaking, is all one needs.
 
Imamacuser said:
I find that you have to dial in the focus peaking intensity for the focal length, otherwise you get false positives.
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So, what if you're using a zoom lens? Watcha gonna do then?
Sounds like you are using colored peaking, which is inferior to normal peaking on the FS7.
 
@Imamacuser

My questions was serious. If you "have to dial in the focus peaking intensity for the focal length", what you do with peaking when you have a zoom lens? What is your focusing method with a zoom lens?
 
I learned to focus a 2/3 interview by crash zoom in on the eye and pulling out for the chat? (obviously relying on a highly parfocal lens)
 
Doug Jensen said:
So, what if you're using a zoom lens? Watcha gonna do then?
Sounds like you are using colored peaking, which is inferior to normal peaking on the FS7.
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That's the challenge. Yes, I was referring to colored peaking.
Depending on the shoot, I'm not changing the focal length mid shot, so I just dial in the focus peaking to the focal length on initial setup.
As Morgan mentioned, if I'm using a lens that's close to parfocal on a static subject, I can get away with zooming in, setting focus, and zooming out.
For run 'n' gun situations, colored peaking gets me 90% of the way there, and I rely on my 7" field monitor for the last 10%.
 
Imamacuser said:
I find that you have to dial in the focus peaking intensity for the focal length, otherwise you get false positives.
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Yes! Different lenses deliver different results on peaking. Especially long zoom lenses. But there again I find quite different results between cameras with the same lenses when moved between cameras. The FX6 peaking appears to be more aggressive, if I can put it that way, when compared to an FS7 or a current series A7 mirrorless.
 
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