+1 on that. *very* nice set.

Bret

if it's the orange light on the back, then it might be because it's thinking. If it's anywhere else, then it should not be happening. Which firmware?

Is lens correction turned off?

Bret

we don't have a landline at home, so there are three mobiles here.
I don't have a landline at work, so there's one from there, too. They pay for it and a chunk of my communication costs. I call the better part of 5 hours a month.

Lots of internet usage on my part, my wife uses her phone more than I use mine. My daughter doesn't really understand what landlines are. She's 9.

Bret

it's a canon 17-55, no close focus, so there's nowhere near 1:1; max magnification according to the stats is 0,17.

Bret

doesn't necessarily work like that as clearly as you'd think. See http://www.youtube.com/fsecurenews --> the root video is shot with a 7D and 17-55/2.8. I'm sure f4 is normally in use.

Bret

you can..... really, we're normally running at f4 and at shorter distances the lack of DoF is astounding.

Bret

I disagree based on practice; focus gets far more critical with Video because you regularly shoot as wide as the lens will go, meaning you have a front of eye in focus and not the back. You also have the unfortunate problem of your viewers expecting a *lot* more from video than stills.
If you want to be able to accurately re-focus in one continuous shot then either a follow focus, monitor, or better still, both, become nearly essential. I don't like it and I didn't believe it until I saw it and experienced it in real life. Sunshades are then a necessary evil, as is a rig.

Bret

no, it won't, because the resolution of the rear screen becomes the limiting factor and it's only 920k dots. So that's 300k pix - meaning we're talking about 200x150 real life res. Which is pathetic.

Good loupes are expensive (see Z-Finder) or fall off regularly - the only half-decent one that's not several hundred dollars is the hoodman, IMO.

Alternative? arm and 10" TFT in native 1024x576 res (set the HDMI output in the menus to 576p).

Bret

you can set it to zoom in when focussing and then start the shot...that's why follow focuses have white skirts to mark focus points.....

Bret

the manual lenses are really easy to focus smoothly even without a rig and follow-focus - I saw how shocked my boss was when he saw a section of movie from my M-135 with refocussing as it was extremely easy.
The 28 is also extremely good.
However, no, you can't always get away without refocussing.

Bret