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Any bodies competitive with Sony c-af or eye-af?

Started Feb 24, 2019 | Discussions thread
glassoholic
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Re: Any bodies competitive with Sony c-af or eye-af?

Astrotripper wrote:

Highgrovemanor wrote:

Long time M43 user (still have my G1 - now IR converted) shooting G7 and many native lenses.

I am cross shopping A73, a6400, and Fuji X-t30 for better c-af for candids of my twin toodlers. Shortof the em-1x, what is next best for fast moving kids?

Panasonic G9 and GH5 line, Olympus E-M1 II.

When shooting people with my E-M1 II, I use face and eye detect exclusively and focus on composition. It has been very reliable for me, never missed a shot. It even works quite well with Metabones and the Sigma 18-35, although that combo is less reliable because AF is simply not as fast as with native lenses. The only lens with which this does not seem to work well is Panasonic 20mm f/1.7, because it just cannot do C-AF.

I have found that as long as the person is tighter cropped, no more than waist to top of head, eye/ face af is very good on my EM1.2. Full length or further away, and wide open with 12-100 or 12-40, so not super challenging for DOF, results are not dependable. Good enough for social media but disastrous for say a wedding job.

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