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Focus peaking, new m6 mk ii

Started 4 months ago | Questions thread
koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 919
Re: Focus peaking, new m6 mk ii

Larry Rexley wrote:[...]

Note that focus peaking apparently is implemented only at the 'display' level either on the EVF or rear of the camera -- -my understanding is that it is applied on the display output and not on the original high-res image before downsampling it for display output.

As the display output is lower resolution than the camera sensor, this means that focus peaking is only approximate, and not nearly as precise as using the magnified view.[...]

As far as I know every feature in the EVF is implemented that way, including the histogram. Since the EVF seems to be 8-bit, you can't use the histogram to do things like proper ETTR when shooting in RAW.

After a while you can estimate how much headroom you still have when the histogram says you're clipping, but it would be nice to have an option to see the 'real' histogram.

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