The D750 has a new feature - on mode dial it has EFFECTS option. When you select it, you can chose from several effects and I guess nobody ever cares for them. But one of them, called Color sketch, works pretty good as focus peaking in live view mode. No, let me rephrase that: It works as superior focus peaking mode. Compared to focus peaking in Sony a6000 it is actually more usable for the focusing part. It works in daylight, it works in dark room. Look at it:
You can also magnify it like in normal live view and still get this effect and it is still helpful to focus. It works with lower contrast subjects too.
Nikon must hate focus peaking so much they gone all the way with implementation of this yet they never tried to make it proper focus peaking feature. Even newest D5 and D500 don\'t have peaking (or they did not market it in announcement and post-announcement materials at least) though Nikon has developed technology to do so two years ago.
So is it usable? Well. You don\'t get raw in EFFECTS mode and you get cartoon picture. But you can focus in EFFECTS then switch to your preferred mode like A or M or U2 (which is next to EFFECTS and can do what you want) and shoot from there. You don\'t have direct control over aperture, you can control it indirectly through ISO and through flash (I got f/4 with flash on, f/1.4 with flash off on 50/1.4 in dark).
Why Nikon didn\'t really make it usable?
One small step for a firmware programmer, one giant leap for manual focus lens users.
Hopefully Nikonhackers will make that step complete. Just assign EFFECTS on/off to AE-L/AF-L and it would be usable if it could be used in A or M mode to control aperture directly and get raw.
Feb 16, 2016 at 06:18 PM
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