John Hewat
November 1st, 2009, 03:29 AM
Hi all,
I am a happy EX1 owner. Sure I had backfocus problems and vignetting and battery drain and rubbed off letters. But I didn't care. I took it to the Sony place in Melbourne and they fixed it and gave it back to me.
That was a year ago, mind you. Which just shows how often I get to use my camera these days!
Anyway, a year later, the letters are all wearing off, the battery still drains and... the part I'm not sure about... the back focus problem might still be there. I'm stupid for not doing more thorough tests when they first gave it back to me.
Can someone confirm whether this is an issue, or whether it's normal behaviour for the camera.
I shot at HQ 1080p24 but imported to a DV PAL project. I didn't shrink to the smaller resolution, just cropped to the important area, and exported as a very low bitrate WMV but you can still clearly see the focus changes. Here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb01pJHqsf4).
Focus ring was pushed forward, in AF/MF mode. Focus switch was in MANUAL. I can confirm that when out of focus, the camera was not auto-focusing. I was manually shifting so that the square was in focus again.
This video shows me manually focusing, zooming out, then in again and the focus point having changed...
But, is that the backfocus issue? Or just the way cameras work?
I am a happy EX1 owner. Sure I had backfocus problems and vignetting and battery drain and rubbed off letters. But I didn't care. I took it to the Sony place in Melbourne and they fixed it and gave it back to me.
That was a year ago, mind you. Which just shows how often I get to use my camera these days!
Anyway, a year later, the letters are all wearing off, the battery still drains and... the part I'm not sure about... the back focus problem might still be there. I'm stupid for not doing more thorough tests when they first gave it back to me.
Can someone confirm whether this is an issue, or whether it's normal behaviour for the camera.
I shot at HQ 1080p24 but imported to a DV PAL project. I didn't shrink to the smaller resolution, just cropped to the important area, and exported as a very low bitrate WMV but you can still clearly see the focus changes. Here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb01pJHqsf4).
Focus ring was pushed forward, in AF/MF mode. Focus switch was in MANUAL. I can confirm that when out of focus, the camera was not auto-focusing. I was manually shifting so that the square was in focus again.
This video shows me manually focusing, zooming out, then in again and the focus point having changed...
But, is that the backfocus issue? Or just the way cameras work?