Actually that seems exactly what Jobs would have settled for, much of Apples success is based on selling inferior functionality due to lack of competision in a closed system and/or brand loyality.
Yeah right, tell that to all the pro Final Cut users, to the users who lost external drives, to the users upgrading to the Next-based version of Mac OS. You have no idea what you are talking about.
I interpret his description of the AF system is that it was a trade off between performance in AI servo tracking vs f8, and for this intended body/target market, AF tracking and high fps were the priorities. My read about his comment on wildlife shooters is that there will be another body addressing this market segment, so there are more opportunities to enable f8 AF. Obviously he is leaving the door open on the APS-H crop as well as the f8 issue.
It really depends on what the lens report to the camera....
the phase AF sensor does not but it can combine info from the 100k metering sensor I believe, it seems VERY odd that you can only do phase AF or phase + facial + color and not say phase + color without facial recognition, very bizarre and odd choice indeedI didn't know AF sensors saw in color. I'd like to see more detail on that.
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Thanks. That brings a lot of the wild speculations down to reality (in another thread, someone wrote that the 1Dx will have 5 stops better [high] ISO noise!).
"CW: The default AF mode is phase detect AF. Color and face detection is optional, but you can’t choose one or the other. It’s PDAF plus Color and Face Detection or PDAF only."
Of course he's the company mouthpiece, but you can still pull some facts from what he says. He is not going to say something limiting about the camera if it isn't true, such as saying that RAW won't be two stops better at high ISOs.
