Fails to complete on A7R

[mykela]

Will not accept a second focus point (maximum) on an A7R. Also does not draw the horizontal focus bar at the bottom of the screen though the two end point icons are visible. (Maybe the FocusDriveListener is not firing change events?)

[mykela]

(Awesome job on this BTW.)

[obs1dium]

Maybe the FocusDriveListener is not firing change events?

Possibly. You should be able to see that in the log file (FOCUSBRK/LOG.TXT on the SD card).

[mykela]

Sorry. No logs on the A7R SD. I'm not building this myself yet, so as soon as I get that done, I will try some stuff. Works great on an A6000 though, including the logging.

[obs1dium]

Alright. Since you own an A6000, maybe you'll also figure out why the app won't take pictures if the logging calls are commented out (see #1).

[mykela]

Two items.

1. On the A7R, the FocusDriveListener, onChanged method is never called. Suspect the API that sets it is broken. I think that's in the firmware so no option for fixing that I can think of.
2. Commented out all the logging and ran it on an A6000. It worked exactly like it did before the logging was commented out. No issues that I could see. If you have symptoms, I can try to reproduce?

[obs1dium]

Interesting. I don't own an A6000 myself so I can't test this, but @vanderLo was having issues. If you're both on firmware 3.10 then maybe it's a configuration issue.

[vanderLo]

Interesting indeed. We tested like 3-5 different builds and only those with enabled logging seemed to work.

[3ricj]

Hi there,

Just a note: I was so super excited to try this on my a7r, but alas it doesn't work when I press the Enter button on the max position. I'm using the 90mm lens on firmware 3.10. The "Focus Bracket Pro" app (limited to 3 photos) from the playstore does in fact work, so there must be some method for making this work. Best I can tell no logs are on the SDCard. Please let me know if I can provide any other debug info or testing.

-- info from my camera:
Name: ILCE-7R
•Product code: 0032826110
•Serial number: nopenope
•Firmware: 3.10
•Battery: 86 %
•Total storage space: 104.4 MB
•Free storage space: 49.5 MB

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•com.android.providers.settings (2.3.7)
•com.obsidium.focusbracket (1.2)
•com.sony.imaging.app.bracketpro (1.20)
•com.sony.imaging.app.flickr (1.10)
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•com.sony.scalar.lib.webapiddservice (1.0)
•com.sony.scalar.providers.avindex (1.0)

[3ricj]

I found this thread: ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak#30

It makes me think if we can take a peek at the APK used on the Focus Pro App, maybe we can figure out what it's doing. How do you download the APKs from the camera?

[obs1dium]

How do you download the APKs from the camera?

You can use OpenMemories-Tweak's telnet feature to copy files from internal storage to the SD card.
I suspect that all Sony apps share a lot of code.

[MartinNuc]

I can help you with this. I know how to reverse engineer android apps but i am unable to purchase focus pro app :(

Btw that Focus Pro App from sony, does it do true focus bracketing? I thought it just changes appreture. If it does true focus bracketing its a great news!

[Kabouik]

I have the exact same issue on A7II. I can set the minimal focusing distance, but can't confirm the maximal distance. Also, the focus bar in the bottom is there, but I see no change when I move the focus ring on the lens.

This is the first time I try using this application, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. I hope this can be solved, I was really super enthusiastic when I saw this app!

[obs1dium]

Unfortunately I don't have access to any A7 cameras, so I can't test this myself. Which lens are you using?

[Kabouik]

Sorry I missed your answer, I thought I had notifications enabled but I was wrong.

The lens I was using was the Voigtländer Nokton 50 F/1.1 using a Techart Pro adapter. I can try with other Voigtländer lenses, with a different M to E adapter (Hawk's Factory helicoid ring), or with adapted Canon EF lenses. I'll also give it a try with the A7s when I can, but at the moment the application is not installed on it so I'll check that later. I'll let you know if any lens or adapter gives better results.

Note that the author of this review (Ctrl+F "FocusBracket") has successfully used the application with an A7RII and M lenses adapted with a Techart Pro ring, so it has been working at some point. The review was published in June, not sure when he used FocusBracket.

[obs1dium]

Interesting. Maybe some camera setting is causing this. Either way I'd test using a native E-mount lens to rule out adapter issues.