Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 with X-T3

TangoMan wrote:

Makingtrax wrote:

TangoMan wrote:

Makingtrax wrote:

colombiano wrote:

I went from X-T1 to X-T3 and 35 1.4 greatly improved focussing speed. No problem with chasing 1,5 years old child with it even at F1.4.

Greatly recommend this lens with X-T3.

Can you share your settings. I’ve been struggling to get much in focus with 3yr old, unless they’re standing still.

If I use eye recognition with AFC, I find it too slow to get focus, and if I use wide tracking I find often the eyes aren’t in focus when I pixel peep.

Any help much appreciated.

You are "struggling to get much in focus" or "the eyes aren't in focus WHEN YOU PIXEL PEEP"?

Wide Tracking seems to work for you, just don't pixel peep. Why should you? Print the picture and be done with thinking the focus is wrong. Or just watch it in full screen, seriously, stop the pixel peeping, once the face looks sharp at normal viewing size, call it a success. If you pixel peep enough, only a flat plane of the image will be really really in focus. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Or you could use one point focusing with a medium size box and you just tap over the face of the 3yr old? It's less of a "we do everything for you mode" but it should be more precise.

I like to precompose the image in my head, place the focus point where I want the focus to be and proceed from there. My success rate is extremely high that way, with a X-T20 (and a X-A1 before it, would you believe ;))

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I’m a bit of stickler for eyes being in focus, I can even see without pixel peeping to be fair unless the subject is distant. Tapping over the face I use for video or when the subject is fairly stationary. And focussing ahead of the action is something I’m very used to using with my older Canon equipment.

The thing is I want to get the hang of this new technology in camera and see if I can get it to nail focus. I’d already in my head put down the problem to a slow focusing lens but if @colombiano has nailed his shots at 1.4 then I’m not too proud to ask for his settings.

But... at 1.5 years old, they move more slowly than at 3

I hadn’t figured that into my calculations. Probably should be in sports finder mode