Exposure metering field problem

[jaapv]

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Yes, but when I am shooting something, I don't lower the camera between shots.

[wda]

Let us at least agree that we all have personal ways of shooting our subjects. As stated long ago, I have never had a problem with wandering focus points on the CL or any autofocus camera.  I can imagine it could happen if a stray left thumb rests on the focus or function buttons. Mine doesn't. I only deliberately move my focus point when using the camera on a tripod. There is usually plenty of time for fine adjustments.

For walk-about shooting, I aim to have most parameters set so that few changes are needed when preparing to shoot. When a tricky subject challenges my auto-focus, I switch to manual focusing. With the CL, I use the hybrid method which is brilliantly successful for me and the main reason I chose that model. I mainly use the camera's viewfinder and rarely feel constrained by camera limitations which is why I am puzzled by some users' reported handling problems. We are all different people and designers have an impossible task trying to  satisfy us all. Most of the time I believe they do a very satisfactory job.

[jaapv]

2 hours ago, wda said:

Let us at least agree that we all have personal ways of shooting our subjects. As stated long ago, I have never had a problem with wandering focus points on the CL or any autofocus camera.  I can imagine it could happen if a stray left thumb rests on the focus or function buttons. Mine doesn't. I only deliberately move my focus point when using the camera on a tripod. There is usually plenty of time for fine adjustments.

For walk-about shooting, I aim to have most parameters set so that few changes are needed when preparing to shoot. When a tricky subject challenges my auto-focus, I switch to manual focusing. With the CL, I use the hybrid method which is brilliantly successful for me and the main reason I chose that model. I mainly use the camera's viewfinder and rarely feel constrained by camera limitations which is why I am puzzled by some users' reported handling problems. We are all different people and designers have an impossible task trying to  satisfy us all. Most of the time I believe they do a very satisfactory job.

The task is not that impossible, I would say. Just have a setting to lock the *&%@ thing in place.
Now you have the camera on your side, you want to take a shot and you tap the shutter button to wake the camera  up and bring it up to your eye. Then the focus point has disappeared, either because the track pad brushed against your coat, or because your nose touched the screen just before the LCD switched to EVF.  Especially irritating when you use spot focus, as the minicross is next to unfindable.

I don't know about you, but on quite a few shots the moment has passed if you start fiddling with controls.

Quite a few users (like me) come from Leica M or SLRs and they want their focus spot in the center and nowhere else.  Moving it on the screen is fine for tripod work, but useless to me when shooting handheld. Focus-recompose beats it hands down.

[wda]

Single point serves most of my needs. Spot focusing is used occsionally where, for example, I need an animal's eye critically sharp or a flower surrounded by criss-crossing stems. I agree, the focusing spot is less easy to find against many backgrounds.

[ruskkyle]

I agree with Jaap it is incredibly annoying when you raise the camera to your eye and the cross has disappeared to the very edge of frame. It took me a while to discover the double-tap remedy!

[tommonego@gmail.com]

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't pressing the shutter half way down lock the focus point. The only native lens I have that is 23 but I use it alot and have not had this problem. But when things start moving around a half press on the shutter locks them in place.

[jaapv]

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Yes, but it locks it in the spot that it has disappeared to...