lpeeples Posted July 26, 2019 Share #1 Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) This is hard to explain but let me try. I took the S1 out last night with SL lenses (50 1.4SL and 24-90SL) and an M lens. Had a tripod, turned off IS. When had a SL lens mounted, I looked in the viewfinder, moving the camera to frame, the image (hard part to explain).... was shakey, not smooth. Using constant preview was horrible. The EVF image was so slow to catch up. I figured out I could use live view boost and it was fine. First question, is that the only solution? I had read LVB is hard on the battery life. Next, tossed a 50mm M lens. With LVB on, focus peaking is off. Need it on so I turned LVB off to get focus peaking and I'm back to the shakey, not smooth EVF. Am I missing something? I do a lot of night shooting.... this isn't good. Lou Edited July 26, 2019 by lpeeples Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mmradman Posted July 27, 2019 Share #2 Posted July 27, 2019 Never handled that camera but my guess is it could be IBIS, try disabling it, besides always good idea to do so when shooting off the tripod. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeuBu Posted July 27, 2019 Share #3 Posted July 27, 2019 This is a known issue with Constant Preview. It simulates also the shutter speed. Means is your SS is e.g. 0.5sec., the EVF or LCD will be updated also every 0.5sec. My workaround us using A mode. I hope Panasonic will fix this soon. Uwe 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helged Posted July 27, 2019 Share #4 Posted July 27, 2019 2 hours ago, BeuBu said: This is a known issue with Constant Preview. It simulates also the shutter speed. Means is your SS is e.g. 0.5sec., the EVF or LCD will be updated also every 0.5sec. My workaround us using A mode. I hope Panasonic will fix this soon. Uwe Yes, for long shutter speeds, the EVF is useless (=lagged response) when the mechanical shutter is activated. The EVF works OK with the electronic shutter (albeit not as good as the Leica SL EVF for e.g. night/star photography). So either use the A mode as @BeuBu/Uwe states, or assign the electronic shutter, together with your preferrable settings, to either C1, C2 or C3 (my solution; C1 = mechanical shutter, C2 = electronic shutter). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted July 27, 2019 Share #5 Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) I cannot understand why Panasonic included Shutter Speed AND Depth of Field AND Aperture in Constant Preview. They state this explicitly in the manual so it is clearly done by design ..... although what the point of anything except Aperture completely eludes me .... The Electronic shutter is a reasonable workaround ..... but you are limited to 60 seconds which for some landscape photos may not be long enough .... Edited July 27, 2019 by thighslapper Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpeeples Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share #6 Posted July 27, 2019 6 hours ago, mmradman said: Never handled that camera but my guess is it could be IBIS, try disabling it, besides always good idea to do so when shooting off the tripod. Yes, IBIS is off, as is constant preview. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpeeples Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share #7 Posted July 27, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) 4 hours ago, BeuBu said: This is a known issue with Constant Preview. It simulates also the shutter speed. Means is your SS is e.g. 0.5sec., the EVF or LCD will be updated also every 0.5sec. My workaround us using A mode. I hope Panasonic will fix this soon. Uwe 1 hour ago, thighslapper said: I cannot understand why Panasonic included Shutter Speed AND Depth of Field AND Aperture in Constant Preview. They state this explicitly in the manual so it is clearly done by design ..... although what the point of anything except Aperture completely eludes me .... The Electronic shutter is a reasonable workaround ..... but you are limited to 60 seconds which for some landscape photos may not be long enough .... I do have constant preview off. By A mode, are you referring to Aperture priority? I'm surprised that no one else is complaining. The EVF was perfect on my SL with M lenses before I sold it and I didn't think to check the S1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helged Posted July 27, 2019 Share #8 Posted July 27, 2019 3 hours ago, thighslapper said: The Electronic shutter is a reasonable workaround ..... but you are limited to 60 seconds which for some landscape photos may not be long enough .... Once everything is set with the electronic shutter, one can switch to the mechanical shutter with identical settings. Somewhat counter intuitive approach, but it works... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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