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NX500 - Disappointed by AF performance

Started Sep 14, 2015 | Discussions thread
ChuckTa Senior Member • Posts: 1,492
Re: cameras with good AF performance

andre95 wrote:

Thanks for all the helpful input, I'll try a lot of the suggestions you've

made.

Just to clarify a few things:

- "Cont normal" was the Drive mode, but the examples I have shown are single shots. They are not taken from a sequence of having pressed the shutter continuously. Press shutter, take 1 picture, release shutter. Wait briefly. Press shutter, take 1 pic, release, etc.

- I have set the AF to Selection AF. Mostly, I have the AF field pretty much in the middle. The size is the third-smallest. With smaller squares, I have athe situation of finding no focus even more often.

- I indeed may have often pressed the shutter fully in one go. However, in the German DSLR forum, a Canon guy with pretty much high-end equipment recently was wondering why his dog-shots were all not well focussed. They all recommended (and it turned that this was indeed the major problem), to press the shutter in one go, and *not* to press it halfway first. Kids are often moving at least a little bit, and with f2 this time delay may mean that e.g. the eyes are not in focus any more. I will experiment with it...

BTW, I shot true continuous shooting with the 50-200mm in a running game. AF and picture yield are fabulous (honestly, I'm still baffled).

Attached is another great example, this time outdoors. And no, I wasn't focussing on the finger The green square was roughly at the boxed out portion of the face (not my daughter, so anonymous). I know, it is backlit again, but still I find this poor...

Best wishes,

Andre

I would not shot a fast moving kid with the 30mm, but your photo the kid is not moving fast so I think it should be ok.

My choice of focus for that is continuous AF with multi-point AF, Tracking On, and Continuous Normal or High . Half press shutter button and you should see the dancing green square sticking to the kid, press all the way when ready to shot.

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