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Done with slow focus

Started Jul 7, 2017 | Discussions thread
The Squirrel Mafia
The Squirrel Mafia Senior Member • Posts: 1,017
Re: Done with slow focus
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That's the K-50 for you. It has a ton of features, but they really skimped on AF performance. I'll borrow my dad's Nikon D7200 whenever I anticipate that a bit of action will be taking place. Even his Olympus OMD E-M1 is almost leaps & bounds better at tracking subjects than my K-50. I'm comparing an orange, apple, & a banana here, but the AF performance between the K-50 & the other 2 cameras is ridiculous. I think the lowest Canon or Nikon DSLRs probably have way better AF performance, but they don't have the features that the K-50 has. I've learned to compensate by focusing manually or presetting the focus, but it requires an incedible amount of effort to get some decent photos. Way more effort than using the other 2 cameras. It also defeats the whole purpose of having a modern AF system.

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