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Simple review of Canon Rebel XTi / 400D

Started Feb 8, 2015 | User reviews thread
BPLOL Regular Member • Posts: 173
Re: Simple review of Canon Rebel XTi / 400D

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

Digirame wrote:

Mike, with your Canon T3i (600D) camera, are you using the center AF point? When I use that point so that I control the focus, I rarely have any problems with the AF. If there's problems from my experience, it's usually the photographer's fault (unless the camera is defective). I've showed hundreds of photos taken from the Canon T2i (550D) and Canon T3i (600D) and taken about 50,000 pictures from them. The autofocus works fine for me...and it's fast.

As a matter of fact I frequently use a different AF point, typically center-low or center-left. And yes I've been aware that dead-center is better, but you just can't get the bike racing shots I want using just the center AF point. And while aware that I've been getting better focus on the center, it's never really occurred to me to stick with it. Thanks for the reminder of the obvious!

(This also explains why I was able to get some bird-in-flight pix in Africa that I really didn't think I had a chance at)

I've been able to get some great shots using the far left/right points in the XTi, even with AI servo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bplol/11472990645/in/photostream

I think most people when talking about focus points simply critique any point for not being crosstype too much.

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