A question about auto extension tubes

richandfleur
Posted 30/05/2014 - 00:28 Link
Mannesty wrote:
If Ricoh were to release their code for serious developers they'd get a darned good idea of the features we actually want. Focus peaking on the K-5/II/IIs would be a great start. In fact it'd be a cool upgrade for any body equipped with Liveview.

I doubt it'll ever happen though.
Another brand (can I say just that?) essentially achieved focus peaking by enabling an 'Art Filter' setting. This displayed the art filter in live view and whilst it saved this in jpg form, the RAW file was untouched. The effectively gave focus peaking in a camera that never had this feature in the first place, which was a pretty cool find.

Small features for me are all firmware based, and mostly around the frustratingly lame video implementation personally. ie why can't I have focus peaking on during video capture, when it would be most useful with manual focussing. And can I pick a higher quality capture bit rate when I decide I want quality over a convinient small file size? And can I have just mechanical stabilisation during video capture please, instead of that warping nauseating 'Movie SR' thing? etc. All software related and able to be fixed right now if Ricoh wanted to.

I do think there is a glitch with the interval setting mode, but I've basically decided that timelapse would be better suited by an electronic shutter camera anyway, given the huge shutter counts potentially involved. The code should still work error free all the same...

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