NX10 Focus

Does anyone know how fast the camera focuses with the 30mm pancake lens compared with the standard 18-55mm lens.

pretty the same.

cucumber said:

pretty the same.

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I'd agree - there's not much difference, and focus speed is not super-fast. What wastes more time is the fact that the lens seems to set focus when you point the camera, but then - when you go to lock focus using the shutter button - the lens wants to re-focus again - even though the image on screen is perfectly sharp and correctly focused.

On the plus side, focus is VERY accurate with this camera - though I find Face Recognition slower and less able than Panasonic (another factor that slows things up when you're taking portraits).

J M Hughes

Presumably that is using Smart Auto mode. My experience is the camera is more controllable in one of the PASM modes, using selection AF, Single AF. It then only focusses when the shutter button is half pressed. Plus you control exactly where in the frame the focus zone is located.

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axlotl said:

J M Hughes wrote:

What wastes more time is the fact that the lens seems to set focus when you point the camera, but then - when you go to lock focus using the shutter button - the lens wants to re-focus again - even though the image on screen is perfectly sharp and correctly focused.

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axlotl said:

Presumably that is using Smart Auto mode.

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No - what I described happens with the camera in PASM and SAF!

axlotl said:

My experience is the camera is more controllable in one of the PASM modes, using selection AF, Single AF. It then only focusses when the shutter button is half pressed. Plus you control exactly where in the frame the focus zone is located.

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It seems that, if you use Face Detection as your default focus mode, the camera automatically tries to focus on whatever the lens is pointed at. Switching to Selection AF stops this happening, and then (as you say) the camera only focuses when the shutter button is half pressed.

Trouble is, my prefered mode is Face Detection - which means putting up with the camera trying to focus at all times. Nothing wrong with that - the problem is, the camera always chooses to re-focus when you half-press the shutter button, even when the image is already in focus.

J M Hughes