Z-7 terrible focus-point movement

[hofsethpaul]

yesterday arrived with quite pittoresque frost on trees and bushes in my garden so I put on a wide wide angle (18mm) so as to encompass the entire view, But the uncontrollable focus of the Z7 and even worse: the spot metering point, had moved away from the center where i naturally assumed it to be, so the fine graduation of whites remained unrecorded.

Such behaviour in a camera is absolutely conmdemnable. I should of course pay more attention to camera settings than to the motive, go back to using my old Metrawatt or activate the HDR setting.


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[hofsethpaul]

more than a year later I still find the moving spot annoying both with the native zoomlens and with my library of manuals.

Especially with snow on the landscape; focusing on a branch in the corner of the frame is not ideal.

The remedy is to use more time and not trying to catch the moment using autofocussing lenses but to leave such at home. use proper manual optics and possibly refrain from exact expposure of the most interesting part of the motive and try the weighting systems built into most cameras-

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