arbitrage wrote: Douglas L wrote: Daran wrote: Douglas L wrote: multibit wrote: k-h.a.w wrote: Douglas L wrote:
Just want to rant...Went to shoot hummingbirds in the morning both yesterday and today, with the sun slightly behind my right shoulder between 8:00-9:00 AM. The damn EVF went black a dozen times! I use the deep eyecup and 10 second power saving mode. It's so frustrating. I will put a small piece of dimlight on it to see how it goes.
Hi Douglas,
I can feel your frustration.
Sony really needs to fix this issue ASAP IMHO.
Unfortunately no word from them yet AFAIK.
I wonder why.
K-H.
I second that , it seems to be dragging on too long so hoping they can get it sorted . I’m right eye dominant and have this EVF problem happening too often when using the camera . I’ve tried left eye and it reduced the blackout but I can’t find and pan BIF very well with my left eye . I’ve also added the longer eyecup and now added dim light tape , it helped but the issue still happens far too often
When everyone near to me was happily shooting away when the hummers were hovering the flowers, there I was messing around this fancy pantsy $6500 camera trying to make it work.
All you need to do is keep the camera in the shade of your body when not shooting. Somewhat annoying, but certainly workable.
I did. I was hand holding the 600 GM, put it in front on my body away from the sun when I wasn't shooting, as soon as I lifted it up to my eye level it went dead many times. I just tried taping both ends of the EVF with dimlight and left about 1/3 of the sensor exposed, it was too slow to come on. I just removed the dimlight and bought s boonie hat. Hope that helps.
Yeah that does sometimes happen if the path you take to raise the lens to your eye allows the sun to hit the sensor even for a split second. Sometimes that is unavoidable. I've also had it happen when I just move the camera away from my eye a couple inches in order to eyeball a bird I'm trying to track. It seems when the light is early morning type it only takes a second to trigger the issue when the proximity sensor has already been triggered with the camera close to your body or to your eye.
Thanks Geoff.
EVF frustration aside, here are some shots from this morning. All shots of birds were very heavily cropped.
Jun 15, 2021 at 07:40 PM
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. Hope that helps.