Hi all
I just got this camera, Sony NEX 7, but I am a little frustrated with some small things. I hope some of you can answer my questions, cause now I have tried so many things in the settings, and searched on google.
1. I have always been used to having the focus button on my thumb - so that the shutter button won't focus, but a button close to my thumb is (I hope I am making myself understandable - sorry for my English). Is this possible with the NEX 7? Can I set the af/mf button to autofocus? I mean, if I press and hold it, the camera will do the same as if I half-press the shutter button? And then the shutter button will NOT autofocus? I would love this.
2. When I use manual focus, and I twist the focus ring on the lens (I only have Sony 50 1.8 so far), I have to twist and twist and twist - from 5 meters to 30 cm., is just so long. Can you change this? I don't want to have to twist that ring so many times before I can focus closer or more far away.
3. Can you do something, so that the viewfinder stays on all the time? It's so frustrating that if I move my head or am in a weird angle or something, it will turn off because my head is not close enough to the little thing that turns it on. If you understand. So that the VF will just be on all the time, and not only turn on when I have my face near the detector or what you call it.
That's it. Thank you so so much for your help.
Best regards,
Magnus
I just got this camera, Sony NEX 7, but I am a little frustrated with some small things. I hope some of you can answer my questions, cause now I have tried so many things in the settings, and searched on google.
1. I have always been used to having the focus button on my thumb - so that the shutter button won't focus, but a button close to my thumb is (I hope I am making myself understandable - sorry for my English). Is this possible with the NEX 7? Can I set the af/mf button to autofocus? I mean, if I press and hold it, the camera will do the same as if I half-press the shutter button? And then the shutter button will NOT autofocus? I would love this.
2. When I use manual focus, and I twist the focus ring on the lens (I only have Sony 50 1.8 so far), I have to twist and twist and twist - from 5 meters to 30 cm., is just so long. Can you change this? I don't want to have to twist that ring so many times before I can focus closer or more far away.
3. Can you do something, so that the viewfinder stays on all the time? It's so frustrating that if I move my head or am in a weird angle or something, it will turn off because my head is not close enough to the little thing that turns it on. If you understand. So that the VF will just be on all the time, and not only turn on when I have my face near the detector or what you call it.
That's it. Thank you so so much for your help.
Best regards,
Magnus