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Hi guys,

 

I have the A7Rii now and am very happy with the image quality. Wow. 

 

However, I still have trouble with the interface.

 

I use back button focus. Sometimes I still want to zoom in or magnify the composition to be sure my focus spot is picking up the right place. I work at sunset and my older eyes can play tricks on me. If I press the magnify button while in any type of autofocus, I get the message: "This operation or setting not available as follows... Focus Mode... Single-shot AF"

 

Am I missing something or is this just not allowed unless you're in manual focus? I never had this problem on my Olympus E-M1.

 

Thanks

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That's a good point. Dang.

 

I really miss my Oly E-M1. The full frame sensor is the only reason I moved up, but the build quality and user interface of the Sony has me completely underwhelmed. At the end of the day it is a tool and I use it because it is the best choice I have for my parameters. 

 

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Try DMF! Activate MF assist, focus with AF and use manual focus to finetune.

The camera will automatically magnify the focused area (let's say you use eye-AF,

it will magnify the eye).

   

Touching the manual focus ring  ["step 3" above] to regain the magnifier 

will disturb the focus achieved be the AF. For "step 3" I'd rather use the 

separate button to regain the magnifier ... allowing a close inspection of 

the AF result but without changing it. Acoarst, if close inspection shows 

a focus error, then MF tweaking simply becomes "step 4".  

   

If I read it correctly, the main goal stated in the OP is to AIM the AF via 

a magnified view so as to be sure the correct detail is the AF target. It 

seems Sony doesn't actually provide that :-( 

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