K30 - viewfinder alignment problems?
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I just found an even worse image, taken at 36mm which I've attached below, resized by 25%. I was about 3 metres from the doorway, and in the viewfinder the central painted area was centred in the frame. There is some lens distortion but that doesn't explain why the image isn't centred.
I'll try some test shots with SR off and see what happens.
Does this happen in RAW too? I only say that because jpg's can crop slightly differently and I've no other idea's. The chances of having the same problem on two different cameras would pretty much rule out a manufacturing problem.
Going to be very interested in hearing from someone who knows what they're talking about
Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes not, but I consider sarcasm an artform. Which is it today?
Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes not, but I consider sarcasm an artform. Which is it today?
Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes not, but I consider sarcasm an artform. Which is it today?
The menu option to adjust focal length for SR is not available, greyed out.
However, I did find an interesting menu option (I find more features every time I look!) called Composition Adjustment which shifts the sensor horizontally, vertically and rotationally. I'm not really sure what use it is as you can't see through the viewfinder and check the composition at the same time, however by shifting the sensor I can easily get the kind of error that I originally described, so it must therefore be a SR problem where the sensor ends up somewhere other than dead centre when I press the shutter button.
I'm going to leave the SR off from now on and see what happens.
Thanks for the sanity check Gravelrash, and further contributions still very welcome from all.
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Wearing glasses wouldn't produce the vignetting Ken, but I'm intrigued by the fact that the only common factor in this is you Peter.
I'm not sure how much travel the sensor has in the X and Y plane but the solenoids should hold it central and it looks liek that isn't happening?
when you get conditions when the problem occurs try taking a pic at all four rotions of the camera i.e landscape and portait both the right way up and upsode down. If the vignetting stays in the same place relative the camera then the sensor is being held in the wrong place. if it mvoes the sensor might be sliding around, not being held at all.
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However, my new K30 is doing the same thing, which I noticed this week while photographing graffiti on shop doorways. The alignment error seemed to change from one frame to another, sometimes it was a rotation error, sometimes it was a quite considerable horizontal shift. On a door way about 4 metres/yards away, I had to frame the shot about 40cm to the left in order for the actual image to align with what I wanted to capture.
I've ended up having to frame wider and manually edit the images, which defeats the object of having a 100% view in the viewfinder.
What's causing this? Is it the shake reduction?