auto-focus and auto-iris

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Nigel Smith

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auto-focus and auto-iris

PostTue Dec 10, 2013 1:18 pm

Pardon my ignorance folks, but I have no experience with stills lenses, only cinema glass.
If I were to buy lenses like the Panasonic Lumix GX Vario 14-42mm, or the Lumix G 14mm or 20mm pancake,
is there a way to focus and set iris manually on the Pocket camera?
Does auto-focus and auto-iris work only when you press the buttons on the camera?
Thanks for any info
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Peter Östlund

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Re: auto-focus and auto-iris

PostTue Dec 10, 2013 1:59 pm

You can focus manually.
You can set iris manually.
Yes, you press and it stays until you press again.

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Re: auto-focus and auto-iris

PostTue Dec 10, 2013 2:03 pm

You can always focus manually with these lenses by turning the focus ring, but you won't get reproducable results because the ring isn't mechanically fixed to the focus, making focus transitions a game of chances. Iris can be set only electronically (no iris ring), but you can use the up and down buttons on the camera to increment/decrement the aperture.
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Re: auto-focus and auto-iris

PostTue Dec 10, 2013 4:57 pm

Thanks to you both.
:)
So if you press the button focus button on the camera for autofocus, will it track movement like a video lens [ie badly!], or stay fixed until you press the focus button again?
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Re: auto-focus and auto-iris

PostTue Dec 10, 2013 6:59 pm

Neither. Autofocus on the Pocket Cam is a very strange beast: you activate it, it does search around a while, then it stops. And sometimes it actually focussed on the thing i wanted it to... It's more a "one shot focus assistant".

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