lawny13
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Re: Depth-of-Field Preview - EOS R
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al404 wrote:
No way to have DOF live preview without pressing an assigned button on RP?
I think this is one of the huge advances of mirrorless...
Huge advantage is relative.
Currently you have to different camps.
1. stopped down focusing from sony (but this is forced, as in you can't have it any other way).
2. Wide open focusing which is what canon does.
Pros for the Sony side, is what you see is what you get. Obvious advantages there.
Pros for canon is that you never compromise the AF system when shooting as you always get maximum light.
I have shot both systems. And if I had to pick I would go with the canon approach. Come dim light situations and the AF system suffers needlessly. I care less for DOF than getting in focus images at the setting I want rather than the convenient setting for the system's AF but not the settings I want.
Some I can easily have a situation where I want an image at f5.6 shutter speed 1/30 with a 50mm lens, and ISO 1600 because I want more DOF. And for a candid moment I want the AF to focus quick wide open @f1.8.
HOWEVER, I wish canon would give us the option for both. In good light the AF system shouldn't have a problem. And if it can AF in video with @f11, I don't see why it can't do it in stills. They just need to give us that option. Sony on the other hand has the issue that it incorporated forced stopped down focusing because when they introduced their GM lenses they had significant focus shift, so it was their "fix" for that. Before that FW update you could turn it on and off.