It should go to line 24 on the top of the lens, if it doesn't I would suggest it may be faulty.
It goes to 24, stops for a split second, goes in slightly, and then extends to maximum zoom.
Jeff
It should go to line 24 on the top of the lens, if it doesn't I would suggest it may be faulty.
It goes to 24, stops for a split second, goes in slightly, and then extends to maximum zoom.
Jeff
Certainly doesn't sound right? Mine doesnt do that. Have you tried reducing the zoom with the adjuster on the top, as it could be sticking?
The same thing happens no matter where I hold the focusing adjuster as I turn on the camera, and when I don't touch the adjuster.
I would take it back then, or if you have a Canon repairers near you take it there. Not good eh? |8.|
I'm not sure. It only happens when I set the camera on C1. If I set it on anything else, the lens just extends to 24 at the start. So I wonder if I somehow arranged for it to start on maximum zoom when I set up the C1 parameters.
Jeff
I'm not sure. It only happens when I set the camera on C1. If I set it on anything else, the lens just extends to 24 at the start. So I wonder if I somehow arranged for it to start on maximum zoom when I set up the C1 parameters.
Jeff
May I ask what is probably a dumb question? How do you get the lens to automatically zoom to its full extent when you turn on the camera? I don't seem to be able to find the answer to this in the instruction book.
Tom Lawson.
Set preferred settings and zoom to full length and then save to either C1 or C2. Starting the camera then in C1 will then automatically extend to full zoom.
Just a word of warning, if it is set to full zoom and you accidently push the power button whilst it is inside a bag, who knows what damage could be done.
Regards
John
Hi Rapala
One thing to consider is the difference the atmosphere can make when shooting at distance, particularly when it's sunny and convection currents in the atmosphere tend to make things a bit fuzzy. In one post crazyfingers shows the same view taken on the same settings on different days. One is very much crisper than the other,
So on one hand I am delighted with a lot of the images I'm getting at full zoom when I'm taking pics of insects or lizards from as close as I can focus down to. There are lots of examples of those taken by a lot of people on this thread.
On the other hand, though, there is no substitute for shooting in good light at close distance. I have on my computer a few of my my pictures of peregrines sitting on a cliff, one measured at approx 330 yards, the other approx 370 yards, using Google Earth.
The quality is not good - bloody awful in fact, but the remarkable thing at that range is that I have something recognizably a peregrine.
Mid range you can get things pretty clear, and here a camera like this wins out IMV, because it is light enough to take with you on any walk, and you can get good pictures, without a hide, of birds that don't tolerate close approaches going about their daily business - feeding, collecting nesting material, singing and otherwise displaying - as far as I can tell completely unconcerned by the human presence, as it is distant enough not to spook them.
For all that, though, you will have more detail from a picture of a bird taken from 5 yards at the appropriate zoom to fill the frame than one taken at 50 yards at full zoom and blown up to the same size. And you will get more from full zoom at 8 ft than full zoom at 80 feet.
David
Does anyone who wears varifocal spectacles have trouble using the EVF on their SX50?
Just got my SX50 today and I find I can't use the EVF with my varifocals - but OK using the LCD screen on the back. Perhaps it's not that much of a loss as the EVF isn't great anyway.
I just got a SX50 have not had time to try it since the purchase yesterday afternoon but have already discovered that I have to remove my Varifocals to use the EVF. If I remove my glasses it is clear but of course this is combersome because I can no longer see the bird or anything else unless I am looking through the VF and what to do with the glasses, only have two hands
Still pretty good though considering the distance.
Oh, and it's a rabbit btw