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M6 Mark II magnify focus with one button?

Started Jun 9, 2020 | Questions thread
PhotosByHall Contributing Member • Posts: 600
Re: M6 Mark II magnify focus with one button?
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Larry Rexley wrote:

koenkooi wrote:

I have it mapped to the '*' button, it will cycle through 1x, 5x and 10x. So it won't be a single push operation, it takes 2 pushes to get to 5x.

ISTR there's an option to make it go to 10x at once, have a look at the manual, it covers all that, and more.

I've done exactly the same thing... to be clear, using the menus, in the "C,Fn III Operation/Others" ---- I assigned the magnification (magnifying glass icon) to the "Asterisk '*' button in the upper right on the M6 Mark II's camera back.

For me, when in manual focus mode, one press of the button gets me to 5x and the second to 10x, a third pushes goes back to normal. Faster than having to use a button and the dial.

I use magnification a lot, sometimes I will put on the EF-S 55-250 IS STM with a 1.5x or 2x teleconverter, switch it to manual focus, and use the 10x zoom to get an awesome, high quality image-stabilized 'digital telescope' of roughly 150x! A 500mm lens would be roughly 10x power on full frame, multiply by crop sensor factor 1.6x to get 16x, but then multiply by the 10x magnification zoom to get 160x! In reality the teleconverter probably isn't quite 2x, so 150x is probably more realistic. Better than a good pair of binoculars, plus it can also zoom with a zoom lens!

heh - that's brilliant.

I tried it a minute ago with a tamron 18-400 - so 400mm x 1.6 x 10 => 6400mm.

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