Taylor Jackson X-H2s coverage (tested against R6 and Z9)

Truman Prevatt wrote:

with777 wrote:

I'm confused about the AF as well. I saw Taylor's videos and the comparison in the first video at 5:53 looks fair and the Fuji seems to hold it's own, potentially besting the R6.

However, it seems that nearly ever other YT review ends with the same thing...."The AF is great...for Fuji". I'm hoping more examples will come out and we can see how good it really is.

It didn't look like Taylor Jackson did anything special to get the results he got and side by side with the Canon - the XH2S held its on tracking a human eye and birds. The results seem similar to what Alan Hewitt documented in his blog post where I learned that Puffins were difficult birds to photograph.

Clearly both Jackson and Hewitt spent sufficient time with the camera to understand how to use it. I used to be a pretty highly rated competitive shooter. However, I could not pick up a gun and in a few minutes make any judgement or get a descent hit rate or cluster. It takes time to learn the equipment. It takes time to fine tune the sites. It takes time to accommodate to the grip angle. The key is after a few days, my precision and timing is back. But the price time I pick it up - basically hitting the broad side of a barn door is the expectation.

That seems to be the issue with the DPR review. They didn't take the time to learn the camera or tweak the settings. In reality Both the Hewitt review and Jackson were much more professional than the DPR review which I view as quite sophomoric. It was clear that they did not do their home work before the making the video. It's also clear from their example shots that they hurried the whole process.

The question I have is if both Hewitt and Jackson can get good results from the camera and produce nice images with it - why can't the others?

it sound reasonable, but as far as I rememver no one has problems with Z9 or A1 AF, nobody needed to prepare, learn understand etc. From the very beginning everybody claimed that AF is superb. It would mean that Z9/A1 are ready to go straight out of the box or pre-prod copy of H2s delivered to DPR has early version of software - do wasn't ready yet...

I hope we finally get fully refined product fingers crossed for success.

Cheers,

Artur