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03-05-2018, 12:02 AM   #1
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Video Mode - Still changes Aperture in AV mode

Hi, I have recently noticed a strange behavior in the video mode of my K-1 which I try to understand. Maybe someone here can help me with it.

I use my DA* 55 in manual focus in video mode in AV mode with fixed aperture of 2.0. When I focus in/out I hear an aperture change at one point, I think it happens everytime at the same focus distance. So I looked in front of the lens and indeed there is an aperture change.
Actually it happend in every mode, even in manual mode.

Is this a bug or do I have to check a special setting to disable this?

As I try to avoid any clicking sound, so its not recorded on the audio track, this is really annoying.

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Perhaps on this lens, the aperture needs to be adjusted to maintain the same illumination due to focus breathing?

Could also be the camera adjusting to the ambient light, since in video mode the shutter speed cannot drop below 1/30 or 1/60s, depending on your framerate.

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Thanks for the reply.

Makes sense and that is what I thought too but at least in manual mode there should be a way to force it off?

Usually one is expecting to see a darker exposure if that happens in manuel mode.
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If you set your video aperture to f4, or close to this value, does this still happen?

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QuoteOriginally posted by richandfleur Quote
If you set your video aperture to f4, or close to this value, does this still happen?
I tried it and it does do the same on F4.

And it happens always at a distance of 4 ft an the focus scale, on all F stops I tried.
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