Am I the Only Wanting Red Focus Peaking on My Pentax?

butangmucat · 10-24-2016, 09:43 PM - **1 Like**

Well, having switched from Sony MILC, I am satisfied with my K-S2, except the focus peaking, which has only white. I miss the red focus peaking of my Sony.

Will Pentax ever introduce red focus peaking?

I am near-sighted so I do switch to LV for focus peaking and zooming when my eyes don't work with the OVF (with magnification eye-cup).

Sincerely

P.S. I accidentally sent this to the wrong forum, admin please help move this to "DSLR Discussion"

Last edited by butangmucat; 10-24-2016 at 09:55 PM.

**UncleVanya** · 10-24-2016, 09:45 PM

I'm game. I hate the white.

cali92rs · 10-24-2016, 09:45 PM - **1 Like**

I would like a few options like being able to choose white, red and yellow

virusn3t · 10-24-2016, 09:59 PM

Im good with zebra pattern.... but Red, Yellow, Blue or Green are better, i can work with white but it could be more easy a more contrasty color.

automorphism · 10-24-2016, 10:06 PM

This is one of those things along with no % battery meter that I hate about digital camera interfaces: not very customizable in some respects. I think red would be awesome too!

jimr-pdx · 10-24-2016, 10:12 PM

I vote yes. My nx300 can be focused on stars (manually) thanks to red peaking!

**lithedreamer** · 10-24-2016, 10:14 PM

Originally posted by automorphism

This is one of those things along with no % battery meter that I hate about digital camera interfaces: not very customizable in some respects. I think red would be awesome too!

Coloured focus peaking would be great, but I wouldn't be in favour of a battery meter that tries to be that precise. Given that we can swap batteries, I don't have confidence that the engineers can produce a reliable meter estimate.

Adam · 10-24-2016, 10:36 PM - **1 Like**

I definitely think they should add more options, including making the focus peaking threshold more sensitive.

**BigMackCam** · 10-25-2016, 01:06 AM

One of the features on my A99-based HV is the ability to change the colour and strength of the focus peaking. It's really useful, so this gets my vote too!

**ffking** · 10-25-2016, 01:42 AM

I'd get confused with the over-exposure blinkies and have to change that colour and then get confused again and .. well, I guess I might get used to it in the end

narual · 10-25-2016, 08:18 AM

Being able to choose between several colors and sensitivity levels would be good. Being able to have a more acurate battery meter would be lovely. It's not rocket surgery to indicate the percentage of remaining life in a battery. Obviously how that translates to remaining shots is going to depend on what settings you're using, but even something showing 10% increments is better than "yep, I'm full... Nope, not full anymore... getting low, I guess, kinda... and "may fail any second! Oh wait, I'm yellow again" (yes, it may require a secondary screen that shows the battery's overall health, since percentage is a function of both the current capacity and the design capacity, so the raw mAh difference between 90 and 100% will change over time... but the software should be perfectly capable of even displaying the current mAh in the battery if they wanted to go into that level of detail)

mikeSF · 10-25-2016, 08:28 AM

pretty happy with it as is - one of the best modern tools for manual focusing, especially with my presbyopia.

narual · 10-25-2016, 09:04 AM

Lightroom lets you shift the overlays on masks from Green to Red to white (ok, more like translucent light grey) to black (translucent dark grey). I think I'd add yellow and blue as options just to cover the bases. Generally speaking, once you go to the effort to put in a selection menu in a program, adding additioanl options to it is pretty trivial.

If you're happy with it as is, great. I am, too, most of the time. Sometimes, I'm trying to focus on things that are very light colors and it's less helpful.

For some extra innovation, perhaps add an option to highlight the reverse, as well - make everything that's *not* sharp go to a [insert color here] tint or something. That might help considerably more for something like a f/1.2 or f/.95 lens (or macro shots) than only highlighting the in-focus area, since it could remove distractions.

markdesmarais · 10-25-2016, 09:53 AM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by narual

Being able to choose between several colors and sensitivity levels would be good. Being able to have a more acurate battery meter would be lovely. It's not rocket surgery to indicate the percentage of remaining life in a battery. Obviously how that translates to remaining shots is going to depend on what settings you're using, but even something showing 10% increments is better than "yep, I'm full... Nope, not full anymore... getting low, I guess, kinda... and "may fail any second! Oh wait, I'm yellow again" (yes, it may require a secondary screen that shows the battery's overall health, since percentage is a function of both the current capacity and the design capacity, so the raw mAh difference between 90 and 100% will change over time... but the software should be perfectly capable of even displaying the current mAh in the battery if they wanted to go into that level of detail)

On the battery, I'm pretty sure that the macbook uses hardware (a fuel gauge chip) on the battery in order to do this. It is a very difficult problem to report accurate charge in a replaceable battery system, as when a new battery is swapped in, the age and charge levels are unknown.

GraySaint · 10-25-2016, 10:21 AM

I'm in, red focus peaking would be nice.

10-24-2016, 09:43 PM - 1 Like	#1
butangmucat Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 709	Am I the Only Wanting Red Focus Peaking on My Pentax? Well, having switched from Sony MILC, I am satisfied with my K-S2, except the focus peaking, which has only white. I miss the red focus peaking of my Sony. Will Pentax ever introduce red focus peaking? I am near-sighted so I do switch to LV for focus peaking and zooming when my eyes don't work with the OVF (with magnification eye-cup). Sincerely P.S. I accidentally sent this to the wrong forum, admin please help move this to "DSLR Discussion" Last edited by butangmucat; 10-24-2016 at 09:55 PM.

10-24-2016, 10:36 PM - 1 Like	#8
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10-25-2016, 08:18 AM	#11
narual Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: South Bend (Notre Dame), Indiana Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,988	Being able to choose between several colors and sensitivity levels would be good. Being able to have a more acurate battery meter would be lovely. It's not rocket surgery to indicate the percentage of remaining life in a battery. Obviously how that translates to remaining shots is going to depend on what settings you're using, but even something showing 10% increments is better than "yep, I'm full... Nope, not full anymore... getting low, I guess, kinda... and "may fail any second! Oh wait, I'm yellow again" (yes, it may require a secondary screen that shows the battery's overall health, since percentage is a function of both the current capacity and the design capacity, so the raw mAh difference between 90 and 100% will change over time... but the software should be perfectly capable of even displaying the current mAh in the battery if they wanted to go into that level of detail) Attached Images

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10-24-2016, 09:45 PM	#2
UncleVanya Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jul 2014 Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 28,459	I'm game. I hate the white.

10-24-2016, 09:45 PM - 1 Like	#3
cali92rs Veteran Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 3,354	I would like a few options like being able to choose white, red and yellow

10-24-2016, 09:59 PM	#4
virusn3t Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 676	Im good with zebra pattern.... but Red, Yellow, Blue or Green are better, i can work with white but it could be more easy a more contrasty color.

10-24-2016, 10:06 PM	#5
automorphism Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Ontario, Canada Photos: Albums Posts: 791	This is one of those things along with no % battery meter that I hate about digital camera interfaces: not very customizable in some respects. I think red would be awesome too!

10-24-2016, 10:12 PM	#6
jimr-pdx Pentaxian Join Date: May 2010 Location: now 1 hour north of PDX Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,897	I vote yes. My nx300 can be focused on stars (manually) thanks to red peaking!

10-24-2016, 10:14 PM	#7
lithedreamer Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2013 Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,799	Originally posted by automorphism This is one of those things along with no % battery meter that I hate about digital camera interfaces: not very customizable in some respects. I think red would be awesome too! Coloured focus peaking would be great, but I wouldn't be in favour of a battery meter that tries to be that precise. Given that we can swap batteries, I don't have confidence that the engineers can produce a reliable meter estimate.

10-25-2016, 01:06 AM	#9
BigMackCam Digitiser of Film Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: North East of England Posts: 20,695	One of the features on my A99-based HV is the ability to change the colour and strength of the focus peaking. It's really useful, so this gets my vote too!

10-25-2016, 01:42 AM	#10
ffking Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Old South Wales Posts: 6,039	I'd get confused with the over-exposure blinkies and have to change that colour and then get confused again and .. well, I guess I might get used to it in the end

10-25-2016, 08:28 AM	#12
mikeSF Pentaxian Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: East Bay Area, CA Photos: Gallery Posts: 6,622	pretty happy with it as is - one of the best modern tools for manual focusing, especially with my presbyopia.

10-25-2016, 09:04 AM	#13
narual Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: South Bend (Notre Dame), Indiana Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,988	Lightroom lets you shift the overlays on masks from Green to Red to white (ok, more like translucent light grey) to black (translucent dark grey). I think I'd add yellow and blue as options just to cover the bases. Generally speaking, once you go to the effort to put in a selection menu in a program, adding additioanl options to it is pretty trivial. If you're happy with it as is, great. I am, too, most of the time. Sometimes, I'm trying to focus on things that are very light colors and it's less helpful. For some extra innovation, perhaps add an option to highlight the reverse, as well - make everything that's not sharp go to a [insert color here] tint or something. That might help considerably more for something like a f/1.2 or f/.95 lens (or macro shots) than only highlighting the in-focus area, since it could remove distractions.

10-25-2016, 09:53 AM - 1 Like	#14
markdesmarais Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Massachusetts Photos: Gallery Posts: 186	Originally posted by narual Being able to choose between several colors and sensitivity levels would be good. Being able to have a more acurate battery meter would be lovely. It's not rocket surgery to indicate the percentage of remaining life in a battery. Obviously how that translates to remaining shots is going to depend on what settings you're using, but even something showing 10% increments is better than "yep, I'm full... Nope, not full anymore... getting low, I guess, kinda... and "may fail any second! Oh wait, I'm yellow again" (yes, it may require a secondary screen that shows the battery's overall health, since percentage is a function of both the current capacity and the design capacity, so the raw mAh difference between 90 and 100% will change over time... but the software should be perfectly capable of even displaying the current mAh in the battery if they wanted to go into that level of detail) On the battery, I'm pretty sure that the macbook uses hardware (a fuel gauge chip) on the battery in order to do this. It is a very difficult problem to report accurate charge in a replaceable battery system, as when a new battery is swapped in, the age and charge levels are unknown.

10-25-2016, 10:21 AM	#15
GraySaint Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 39	I'm in, red focus peaking would be nice.