Wayne Fox
Workshop Member
Yes, you are right Chris. Timer delay and vibration detect seem to be working now. (didn’t seem to work with the first release, but maybe the camera was so solid it just seemed that way because of vibration detect.
Mirror lockup keeps the mirror up for all exposures, but you have to move over to the mains screen and lock it up before triggering the sequence, otherwise it will return and go up for each shot. Seems unnecessary, so perhaps the next update will simply keep the mirror up automatically.
As far as AF, what I’ve noticed is if you AF on one point, touch the gear icon most of the time the camera will shift focus and back and most of the time seems to shift it back to the correct point. (although for some unexplained reason not 100% of the time) However, if you then AF on the other point, and touch the gear button, the camera seems to just refocus on the stored point - the two numbers will match.
Using the suggestion described earlier-setting secondary shutter button to AF seems to work most of the time. If I AF, set that point by touching the gear then storing the number, AF on the other point, then move the lens to manual and back and touch the gear button seems to work most of the time. Sometimes it did focus back on the previous point, but if I waited just a moment in MF then back to AF, touching the gear would then give me a new number, not send the lens back to the stored number. I think it advisable to set near point first because the action of moving the lens in and out of AF almost always slightly shifted focus for me (AF would make a slight adjustment) no matter how carefully I did it. Far point is probably a little less critical.
I think Graham mentioned something about recording the numbers, so I tried a couple of theoretical workflows assuming infinity was a desired point. It does seem the number for infinity stays constant even if the lens is removed, so if the image includes infinity you could AF on the near point, set that number, then manually dial in the infinity number and set that point. Tried that a few times and actually works pretty quickly and seems to be reliable.
I have tested all of the above with the Phase 75-150 (non LS, about 7 years old) and with the 40-80 LS. Both lenses operated as I’ve described when using the FS tool.
I don’t think any of this applies to those using manual focus/live view, the tool as is seems to be very functional for that (other than perhaps having to turn the dial a lot of turns if you need to get from very near focus to infinity).
Mirror lockup keeps the mirror up for all exposures, but you have to move over to the mains screen and lock it up before triggering the sequence, otherwise it will return and go up for each shot. Seems unnecessary, so perhaps the next update will simply keep the mirror up automatically.
As far as AF, what I’ve noticed is if you AF on one point, touch the gear icon most of the time the camera will shift focus and back and most of the time seems to shift it back to the correct point. (although for some unexplained reason not 100% of the time) However, if you then AF on the other point, and touch the gear button, the camera seems to just refocus on the stored point - the two numbers will match.
Using the suggestion described earlier-setting secondary shutter button to AF seems to work most of the time. If I AF, set that point by touching the gear then storing the number, AF on the other point, then move the lens to manual and back and touch the gear button seems to work most of the time. Sometimes it did focus back on the previous point, but if I waited just a moment in MF then back to AF, touching the gear would then give me a new number, not send the lens back to the stored number. I think it advisable to set near point first because the action of moving the lens in and out of AF almost always slightly shifted focus for me (AF would make a slight adjustment) no matter how carefully I did it. Far point is probably a little less critical.
I think Graham mentioned something about recording the numbers, so I tried a couple of theoretical workflows assuming infinity was a desired point. It does seem the number for infinity stays constant even if the lens is removed, so if the image includes infinity you could AF on the near point, set that number, then manually dial in the infinity number and set that point. Tried that a few times and actually works pretty quickly and seems to be reliable.
I have tested all of the above with the Phase 75-150 (non LS, about 7 years old) and with the 40-80 LS. Both lenses operated as I’ve described when using the FS tool.
I don’t think any of this applies to those using manual focus/live view, the tool as is seems to be very functional for that (other than perhaps having to turn the dial a lot of turns if you need to get from very near focus to infinity).
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