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

Started Feb 24, 2019 | Discussions thread
burritosandbeer Regular Member • Posts: 314
Re: Any bodies competitive with Sony c-af or eye-af?

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?

I am ready to go multi system and get something better for candids and portraits, but obviously staying with M43 would save buying more lenses, but I probably would wind up getting a fast focusing 15 or 17, since my 20 is so first gen. Already have 12-35 2.8, and 45 1.8. and 35-100, and 7.5, and....

So what, if any M43 body will be close to a6400? Even Fuji's latest gen reviews pretty well.

So with my G7, I usually use the single autofocus with the smallest box size available that is not a single point.  on the 42.5f1/7 and 25f1.7 i'm generally amazed at how fast it focuses.  I will sometimes use CAF with the face detect/eye tracking and i think its awfully neat, but I've never missed shots in social settings due to it being somehow not fast enough.

I guess YMMV, but I'm madly in love with the speed of AF of my G7 and panny lenses.

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