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How is the SL1 for Shooting Outdoor Sports?

Started Mar 14, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: SL1 probably better focusing than XSi ...

confyushis wrote:

PeterJon wrote:

The local camera shop employee told me the 100D/SL1 had a far better/faster AF mechanism than my old XSI and would be more than adequate.

the SL1 has a f/2.8 sensitive center focus point ... this may help focus faster when using the center focus point and f/2.8 lenses or wider ... the XSi makes no mention of the center focus point sensitivity ...

Canon dSLR have a center cross type AF point, in the past they just didn't promote it.  They started to to make their cameras sound better than the past ones.

And I doubt the SL1 autofocus is "far better" than the XSi focusing.  That's what a salesman says to try and make a sale.  It's probably marginally better at best.  Neither camera is designed or good for ai-servo sports.

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