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Focus peaking v. magnification

Started May 4, 2014 | Discussions thread
MOD Tom Caldwell Forum Pro • Posts: 46,357
Re: Focus peaking v. magnification

mimritty wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

mimritty wrote:

Thanks for your replies.

It sounds like it may come down to a matter of choice and taste. So far my experience has been more like jeffharris' but I'll keep playing around with the focus peaking and see if I improve with practice. In the meantime, my fn button is set at magnification as that has been producing really good results.

Way to go, I think if focus peaking is not working for you then you have not yet learned how to read it properly.

Yes, that's what I thought and that's why I posed the question. Lots of interesting info in your post -- thank you.

I cut my teeth on the two versions of focus peaking and MF only lenses on the Ricoh GXR with mount module and since then have used the Pentax Q, Sony NEX6 and now the GM1 versions.  Ricoh remains the best in the business, perfectly scaled to magnification right up to 8x and in their Mode2 version full screen always and useful at all magnifications.  But it looks crazy stuff and far different from their Mode1 which is much the same as is used by everyone else with various forms of a twist.

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