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Focus Bracketing with Live View Off Possible?


SandeeLim

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HI everyone!  I just got the A6700 and was excited to use the focus bracketing for my macro photography, however it seems like whenever I turn on the focus bracketing the camera defaults back to Live veiw mode which makes it almost impossible to set the focus as I usually have a black screen because my f-stop is high and the light in the woods is low. I shoot with flash to compensate for the low light, and usually have the live view mode off so I can see what I'm doing on the screen.  Is there a setting that I can change to have the Live View mode off during focus bracketing? 

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@tonygale  I do have the live veiw set to off, but when I turn on the focus bracketing it automatically turns it back on. When I try to turn it back off I get a message saying "this operation or setting is not available as follows: drive mode Focus bracket.   

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@SandeeLim I just tried with the a9III and a7RV and couldn't find a way around it either. I also tried bright monitoring to see if that would work. But it is also disabled. I reached out to a couple Sony tech reps to see if they had any ideas, if they have a solution I will post again. I will also bring it up next time I have a chance with the engineers. Sorry I couldn't help!

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@tonygale Thanks for checking! Looking forward to hear what the Sony reps may say.  In the meantime I have found a work around, sort of.  With the Sony 90mm macro I can put the lens itself into manual focus which lets me have the live view mode setting off and then pop it back into autofocus mode for the focus bracketing.  But that only works with lens like that that can pop back and forth between manual and autofocus, and not gonna lie, it's a little inconvienient. 

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