Following my list of gripes in my previous entry, searching for some workarounds seemed like a good idea. First thing was to try the M-Adapter-T and R-Adapter-M in place of the R-Adapter-L. I don’t have with me the foot for the R-Adapter-M, so had to use the camera’s tripod thread for attaching my harness. But it worked . . . no wake-up lag. And less battery use, in fact.

Next was a simple tweak: switching spot metering back to center-weighted. The immediate effect was that the camera appeared to meter better all around on critter shots. And the desired effect, not blowing out magnified live view, was achieved.

But how to find a third wheel for EV when the camera has only two and neither can be set to EV in manual mode? I left that to my good friend, photography expert Chat-GPT, who came up with a solution that made me feel like face-palming: progam EV to a function button so that it can then be adjusted by a wheel. Dunno why on earth I didn’t think of that.

See the possibilities rather than the limitations, and the possibilities exist. So I’m back to having a nimble camera even when critter-chasing. The one remaining limitation is that with a long lens only minimally assisted by IBIS, I can’t slow the shutter down in dim light. About 1/500 is the slowest speed with which I can get almost 100% critically sharp images with this setup.

So maybe time to add an autofocus option with decent OIS. Yep, G.A.S. always finds a way, even when the camera doesn’t!

SL2/180mm f2.8 APO-Elmarit-R . . .