Re: GESO: Lens-swapping

2014-09-01 Thread Mark C
Nice shots, though I hope the arrow missed the bird's nest The portrait of Glen is excellent. So - the old school split screen focus assist is a split screen simulation in the EVF? That's cool... Mark On 8/31/2014 6:43 PM, Tim Bray wrote: Oh, the manual-focus aids on the X-T1 are pure

Re: GESO: Lens-swapping

2014-09-01 Thread Zos Xavius
Pentax could learn a whole lot from Fuji about how to implement an EVF. What they have done is pretty compelling. I would really like to see Pentax work on a quality mirrorless system if this is the kind of cool stuff we can look forward too. If I had a lot of cash I would be kind of interested in

Re: GESO: Lens-swapping

2014-09-01 Thread Tim Bray
The mirrorless Sony/Fujifilm choice right at the moment is pretty clear: Fuji is ahead on ergonomics and lenses; Sony on sensor size. So if you want to print really big, you probably need the Sony. Also, they’ll eventually catch up on the lenses. But maybe that’s not such a big thing, since

GESO: Lens-swapping

2014-08-31 Thread Tim Bray
In which I screw three different lenses, 2 from Pentax (the focal-length difference between the 2 is 350mm), onto the Fujifilm X-T1: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/08/03/Lensing -- - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray) -- PDML

Re: GESO: Lens-swapping

2014-08-31 Thread Darren Addy
Cool stuff, Tim. When you say manual focus assist what are you referring to? Something beyond the AF blink/beep we have on the Pentax DSLRs? On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: In which I screw three different lenses, 2 from Pentax (the focal-length difference

Re: GESO: Lens-swapping

2014-08-31 Thread Tim Bray
Oh, the manual-focus aids on the X-T1 are pure voodoo magic. You can have the basic does-it-look-sharp, or you can have focus-peaking sparklies, or you can have split-screen like Dad’s rangefinder. Or you can have dual mode, with a large-ish version of the image using focus-peaking with a little