That F1.2 lens is looking rather good on the Maxi. I might dig mine out of the spare lens box. Does it work OK in daylight?
Looks good @dirkzelf! The focus on the third video down seems a bit off though. Typical of trying to focus the ƒ1.2 every single time I guess.
I'm not so sure it's out of focus, I've noticed it before, in low light far away objects seem out of focus, but in daylight they're perfectly sharp, I guess it's a lighting thingie that overexposes those objects as headlights and reflected traffic signs.
On the other hand this lens may not be suited exactly perfectly fot the Maxi, but as far as I know it's native resolution is 1080p, so it should be as good for the Maxi as it is for the Mobius One.
I made the comment because of my observation that the car directly in front of you at the red light seems somewhat out of focus to me. And the car is at a distance where things would usually be in pretty good focus with a properly focused lens, especially with no motion blur since both your truck and the VW sedan in front of you are standing still until the light changes to green. Everything in the other two videos seems nice and sharp by comparison.
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Well, you would be the final arbiter since you are the one with the footage you can view directly on your computer in person. Still, I have a hunch others may see what I'm getting at when looking at the screen shot. Just sayin'.
Anyway, as long as you are happy with the footage that's all that matters. I remember when I spent a lot of time experimenting with the two different ƒ/1.2 lenses I have they were driving me nuts! Sometimes when I thought I had the camera (M1) in really good focus I would come home and find out it was off, sometimes, way off.
My Maxi with the default F1.5 lens has an out-of-focus patch to the right of centre. The two silver cars appear slightly blurred, although the front of the white van is sharp. I do wonder whether it's caused by dashboard reflections or poor optical quality of my windscreen. A test video shot outside the car would determine that - I'll do it one day.
Unfortunately, that patch is exactly where I would want to capture any passing vehicles.
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If you have that always, all the time on the same exact spot, then the lens is most likely flawed. But it could be glare just as well.
Drive your car around the parking lot slowly and simply view the spot in question, then, as per your own plan, put it outside (car, bike, hat, hand, whatever) and try bare. Magnet mounts come in handy for that.
Auto has to sense a change in rotation. If the camera is permanently upside-down it doesn't seem to recognise that. Hence the recommendation to use 'inverted' when always used upside-down.About the rotate function, it works, but in the beginning also the AUTO rotate worked fine, but by no means I can get it to work anymore. Not that I need it, but would be nice if a built in feature would work.....
Auto has to sense a change in rotation. If the camera is permanently upside-down it doesn't seem to recognise that. Hence the recommendation to use 'inverted' when always used upside-down.
Could be a FW bug.I know, but it will NOT auto rotate, and again, I don't need it, but such things just bugging the h@ll out of me ...