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How is the SL1 for Shooting Outdoor Sports?

Started Mar 14, 2014 | Discussions thread
confyushis Senior Member • Posts: 1,072
lens af motor is the key ... fps is also ...

PeterJon wrote:

But I'm more interested in how a camera tracks a moving object than how many shots it takes per second.

part of this depends on the user ... are you selecting auto focus point? manually selecting center focus point? ... cross type focus points focus better/faster than non-cross type (which is why the 70d and 7d may focus faster) ... the center focus point is typically more sensitive than the edges and may focus better/faster if you have the f/2.8 or wider lenses to take advantage of the sensitivity ...

the reason fps is mentioned is because phase-detect auto-focus speed is so similar from dslr to dslr (the "speed" might actually depend more on the lens focusing motor than the body's phase detect sensor) ... the increased fps will allow you to capture the photo you might have missed with the lower end camera body ...

otherwise, if you're using the center focus point and the same lens on all the models you have mentioned, phase-detect autofocus for sports probably won't be significantly better from one model to the other ...

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