Is the d4 better at focusing than the d800?

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abcdefghijklmnop
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Re: Is the d4 better at focusing than the d800?
In reply to olyflyer, 6 months ago

olyflyer wrote:

abcdefghijklmnop wrote:

olyflyer wrote:

Ralf Ronander wrote:

I don´t agree.

If you make sweeping statements like "D4 is much faster (at focussing)" you should be prepared to offer at least some evidence.

What other evidence you need? Compare the manual. One can do AF at 10fps the other at 5fps. Which is faster? How do you manage 10fps with the D800?


When I started reading the thread I thought discussion was about AF speed, not frame rate. One should know that a fast frame rate does not, necessarily, say anything about the camera's AF speed.

It's not about frame rate, but AF performance is tightly connected to frame rate in a way. If a camera can follow a fast moving target with higher frame rate, using AF then another camera with slower frame rate can then it is fairly obvious that that camera has a higher AF performance. For me that's fairly obvious. You can not exclude the frame rate unless you are totally uninterested in high frame rate performance and always shoot in single AF.

I have two D800's sitting on the shelf, one is powered by the EN-EL15 battery and shoots RAW at 4 FPS max. The other is powered by an EN-EL18 battery it shoots RAW (DX) at 6 FPS. Surely you are not suggesting that one of those two bodies has a better AF system than the other.

Just because a faster FPS body needs to perform the AF function in a shorter time span than a slower FPS body, does not mean is does so nor does it mean that it does it well.

The D4 may very well have it's AF system tuned to a higher degree of accuracy/speed than the D800, I would be somewhat surprised if that were not true, but it will take some testing to prove it.

Edited 6 months ago by abcdefghijklmnop
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