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Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 with X-T3

Started Mar 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
ediblestarfish Regular Member • Posts: 499
Re: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 with X-T3
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Makingtrax wrote:

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.

This is my experience too. Even with the f2 and its smaller maximum aperture giving more DoF and naturally having an AF speed advantage, my keeper rate is quite low unless I generate more DoF by stepping back or stopping down more.

The 35mm f1.4 is much slower at closer distances, as the maximum AF speed seems a bit more limited, and the distance % changes are higher, giving the AF a real workout.

Also at f1.4, the eye-af frequently hits the eyelashes instead of the pupil.

Still, the best sharp images are when I shoot low speed bursts when my 3 year old is occupied with something and slows down. Standing still helps of course, but I sometimes get the odd mis-focus.

In any case, the one-eye in focus thing isn't really my style, and I tend to shoot f4 normally (also you get a crazy resolution boost). So the f1.4 isn't really missed for my style of shooting. You can see my results here, though most are with the 23mm f2 @ f4.

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