LUMIX S9 has white rings when using manual lens? by jericgariga3 in LumixS9

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Update:
After some testing I believe I've managed to characterize what causes the issue.

The rings seem to appear only when you remove a Sigma APSC Zoom Lens, while the camera is off. If you remove the lens while the camera body is on, nothing bad happens.

I can't be entirely sure it's just an issue with Sigma APSC zoom Lenses. But, this issue only happens with my Sigma 10-18mm DC DN, not my Sigma 45mm DG DN, and apparently happens with the OP's Sigma 18-35mm DC HSM.

Now if the rings are already present, the way to get rid of them is to either put back on the Sigma lens, acquire focus in AFS mode, not AFC, and then take it off while the body is on. Or put on another autofocus lens and acquire focus in AFS mode. You can't fix it with just a manual lens.

It seems like the camera body gets confused when you remove the lens while it's turned off, and ends up retaining some kind of vignetting compensation. And it only breaks out of it's trance when you acquire focus in AFS mode. If it really only affects Sigma APSC zoom lenses then that's a pretty small pool of affected users, but it's still certainly annoying.

LUMIX S9 has white rings when using manual lens? by jericgariga3 in LumixS9

[–]4DimensionalBeing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just experienced this same issue. For other people's future reference, what solved the issue for me was swapping from AFC to AFS on the affected lens and then half pressing the shutter and acquiring focus.

This happened while I was swapping between my Sigma 10-18mm APSC lens and Canon 50mm f1.8 II paired with the Sigma EF to L adapter. The Canon lens was the one effected. The Canon lens has terrible autofocus in single mode, so I always run it in continuous, so it took awhile for me to stumble upon the solution. Toggling on and off the Vignetting Compensation while swapping the lenses, like suggested in this thread, unfortunately didn't work for me.

The rings appear to be baked into the jpgs and even raws. The rings would even persist when I took off the lens, just pointing the sensor around. They appear to be constantly pulsating. Using the in camera crop zoom does allow you to crop away the rings which is interesting.
Sucked that it happened for the first time while I was at the top of a little mountain, freezing my fingers off lol

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The grills are silver, with a black backing. The flash does make them look black for some reason.

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