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Everything what can be done with the combination of software and LiveView camera can be done by the camera itself, like focusstacking. Helicon software is only taking closest and farest distance point of my choice and then calculates the interpolation and necessary steps for a given aperture. So, it' striving the lens' focus motor in small steps.


So, I remain convinced, an in-camera adjustment of PDAF with the help of CDAF is not impossible, especially, if the camera already knows how much "disfocus" is needed in PDAF. And since Sigma lenses allow different adjustments for different distances, I don't see an impossibility to store this information in-camera as well. It's just strange that cameras with LV abilities are unable to adjust their AF system. I'd see that as more progress than another higher pixel count which brings the mechanics of PDAF close to their limits.

You seem to not understand that differences and the particulars in PD AF which can make it less accurate in certain combinations.

PD AF sensors at times get confused by spherical aberrations, which show the image in focus when to our eyes, it is not. Because the AF sensors do not see in RGB, basically. Another thing is that PD AF does not continuously checks if AF is really reached, since doing so would make with some lenses the procedure endlessly slow.

 

The camera does NOT know how much "steps" the lens is OOF. Only the user says this: If you defocus +7 PD sensor "steps", the resulting image seems in focus. This then does not say anything about the lens steps or about the why of the defocus of the lens. It does not tell the camera anything about lens motor control.

MFA anyway is a crude last minute resort, as at different focus distances, or depending if the lens focusses from back to front or front to back, or with different focal lengths with zoom lenses, the needed MFA can differ. 

CamRanger does this focusstacking, too, although in no elegant way. Plus driving a motorised tripod head for automatic panorama shots, if necessary, with HDR. So, CamRanger offers a bit more than EOS has inbuilt - but with this comes extra cost, cables, weight and time to set up this stuff. It has improved and was worse one year ago, but it still is an extra piece of equipment.


I'd be quite happy, if one Nikon could connect to my iPod/iPad like your EOS does.

Apparently, the new D3300 can connect to a device when you purchase the extra WiFi module. The D5300 has WiFi built in, and can also be used with an app (wireless remote utility, WMU) for remove liveview. Like the live view implementation on Nikons, the app is also more limited in operation than EOS remote (no ISO, aperture or exposure time control during remote live view). I do not know if WMU allows for 100% magnification.

When you're releasing the shutter in LiveView, is there a mirror movement involved? On Nikon, it is and it's timeconsuming. The rest of the LV features you're listing, Nikon offers, too. In a way...

Nikon does not offer full aperture control, nor exposure simulation. On my Canon the mirror does not need to move with live view. On the XX0D model range and 1X00D model range it does.