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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: alatreille on July 23, 2018, 01:49:17 pm

Title: A7rII weirdness
Post by: alatreille on July 23, 2018, 01:49:17 pm

Hi all,

The last week, my A7rII has shown a rather weird trait.
I'm in manual mode and tethered.

It seems to randomly be resetting itself to f8 / iso100 and 1/50th of a second.

Has anyone else had this happen to them.  It's getting rather frustrating.

Cheers

Andrew

Title: Re: A7rII weirdness
Post by: Martin Kristiansen on July 23, 2018, 02:01:34 pm

I have the A7R2 as well and shoot tethered a lot. In fact mostly tethered. I have not ever experienced the behaviour you describe. How do you tether? I was using the Sony software and downloading the i ages to a hot folder that Lightroom auto imported from. It was an complete PITA. Had a lot of random stuff happen but not what you describe.

Changed to C1.

Title: Re: A7rII weirdness
Post by: bdp on July 23, 2018, 04:12:34 pm

Do you have anything plugged into the hotshoe? I have sometimes seen strange settings appear when something metal such as a mount for an external monitor is in the hotshoe and touches all those tiny metal contacts at the front. I've also had corrosion on those pins cause problems.


Ben

Title: Re: A7rII weirdness
Post by: alatreille on July 24, 2018, 01:17:28 pm

Quote from: Martin Kristiansen on July 23, 2018, 02:01:34 pm

I have the A7R2 as well and shoot tethered a lot. In fact mostly tethered. I have not ever experienced the behaviour you describe. How do you tether? I was using the Sony software and downloading the i ages to a hot folder that Lightroom auto imported from. It was an complete PITA. Had a lot of random stuff happen but not what you describe.

Changed to C1.

Yup. Working in C1.

I noticed this morning that it seems to occur when i disconnect the tether cord or if the computer goes to sleep monitor turns off.

Weird.

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