Juhaz

You can't get it to happen automatically just by turning the focus ring with lenses that don't have electronic contacts, but you can assign MF assist to a soft button to turn on the magnification ...

Pick a star bright enough that you can clearly distinguish it from noise, turn OFF focus peaking, use full magnification and tweak the focus until the spot of light is as small as you can get it.

The only reason why there's a big difference between A7 and A7III is that the A7 sensor was already quite outdated when it was released in 2013. If you compare to A7r instead, you'll note that ...

Well, that depends on in what kind of weather you're planning on using your camera of course. Apparently there's 19 rainy days out of 30 in Reykjavik in September on average - so you can prepare ...

No, it is not. The LA-EA3 is an empty tube, as I'm sure you can verify by looking through it - any adapter that in any way changes the FOV of a lens must have optics in it. It's also basically ...

Yes. None.

Yes, that's how it's supposed to be. It's a portrait lens, with very thin DOF wide open at common subject distances so it much be very precisely focusable.

You care, obviously. Otherwise you wouldn't be constantly whining about how other people shouldn't use a tool they find useful 🤷

Unfortunately it seems it will never again be supported on any camera going forward now that Sony gave up on using Android-derived OS on their cameras. They really missed the boat there IMO - yes, ...

Ever heard of timelapse videos? Bracketing? Burst shooting? Panoramas? Depending on what kind of pictures someone takes, they could easily hit couple of 100k in a much shorter time than your ...

Sorry to rain on your fantasy parade, but... USB OTG requires hardware support - for instance, USB sticks don't work by magic. They need the host device they're plugged in to supply power to them, ...

Funny thing about the laws of physics is that they really really don't care whether you believe in them or not. They are in effect regardless. They are also not "unspecified" just because you are ...

You make it sound like the camera itself doesn't have this kind of circuitry when it's being used as a charger, which is of course blatantly false. This on the other hand is a real reason for ...

I tested it with an USB power monitor, and the camera draws about 1.43A of current when charging (curiously, this drops significantly to 0.5-1A if it's turned on and operated on USB power). No ...

Diffraction is *always* in play - even when wide open - it's merely a question of where the compromise between diffraction softening and the improvement from stopping down cancel each other out. Wh ...

Huhwhat? It IS extremely versatile, which is largely why people do love it despite being just "good enough". It's not so much better than the kit lenses everyone loves to harp on, but because of ...

I wouldn't get it at any price because it's undoubtedly going to be significantly larger and heavier than the SEL50. 2/3 stops faster and some minor IQ benefits wouldn't make me lug around a much ...

... and sample shots that didn't show any problems. All of which was absolutely true. Except, you know, for the fact that any of them wasn't at "big distance" at all. If you are too bloody lazy to ...

Quite a many of the people in this thread were pointing out the what turned out to be the real issue from the start as the more likely cause, and you blew them off because you had already ...

So, uh, head out then? I'm sure it was a bad copy but wow, holy mother of laziness... I had a bad copy of that lens too, and it was pretty apparent from the get go but I never once for a second ...