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I have recently acquired a Sony A7SII. Does anyone have any experience with the camera body? I seem to be having problems with the autofucus system prodominantly in the AF-C mode; where the focus just seems to pulsate without locking on to anything. I only have one lens a Samyang 135mm 1.8 AF I...

Curious to know if anyone with a Canon 60/70D (it may even have options on the 80D) has changed the setting for autofocus and tracking in the custom menus in order to get better focus/tracking for motorsport? Things like tracking sensitivity, Accel/Decel tracking, AI servo first and second...

I was askd to shoot a 3 minute walkthrough on a. house yesterday, traditioanlly I am a photographer. But am able to shoot video on tripods and apply my cinematic eye to film no problem. I thought I would give it a go. No gimble, was hoping to use heavy tripod as a counter weight... It didn't...

Hi everyone! I'm new to the forum and photography and as expected I have a lot of questions that I thought would be better to ask in one thread rather than opening a lot at the same time. I have read a lot about the basics, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and their relationship but right now I'm...

TLDR - I own a Polaroid SX-70 and I want to be able to attach lenses to it, how would I do that? Brief info on the camera: A quick expert from a wiki page - “The SX-70 has a folding body design, a 4-element 116mm f/8 glass lens, and an automatic exposure system. The camera allows manual focus...

Hi all, I'm feeling demotivated and anxious. Last week i sold my 6d and replaced it with a 70d as my shooting went from semi pro (weddings and such) to leisure, mostly airshows/motorsports. On paper the 70d is the perfect camera for me. Modern AF, 7fps etc. In reality the 70d has massive...

Hi as per the title, i got a 135mm m42 vivitar lens for my sony nex 6. I got an adapter from ebay. Lens works great, but the barel stops before it reaches focus at infinity. Any idea how to fix this?

Hello, I shoot with a Nikon D5600 with Sigma TC 1.4x and 150-600mm Contemporary. Equipment is only a couple of months old and when I got it I checked for back and front focusing but it looked dead on. Although this was done at a distance of six meters only, I got it confirmed by using Live View...

Hi all Big problem with my Nikon 85 1.8 AF D. I tried it on a D90 and a D7000 and it is not nailing focus on any shot it seems. It confirms as focused in the camera but every shot is slightly blurred. Is there any way to fix this? I bought it secondhand cheap. Now I think the seller might have...

Hi all Nikon D5200 I need help with a focusing issue I am having. I can't seem to focus on more than one face when doing a shot with two people? One face is sharp in focus and the other is off focus which spoils the shot! I have the same issue when I have 3,4 or 5 faces in the group...

Hi there I am no doubt going to be here quite often but at the current time i have a real problem with focus on the above camera hope someone can help to sort this if it can be sorted that is. I was the other day attempting to video a Heron bird which was stood behind some reeds. I had enough...

Hey whats up. Experiencing a few problems with my yashica t4 at the moment. I'm getting a lot of shots that have back focus (especially without flash). Below are some examples. The two photos of the black guy sitting http://tomemmerson.com/image/139794519053 and white guy standing...