My thoughts on the XH2s after a day of shooting motorsport

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

FuzzyDice wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

FuzzyDice wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

FuzzyDice wrote:

shotbyvittorio wrote:

FuzzyDice wrote:

How surprised were you at the speed of the AF system?

I was pretty surprised at how fast the subject detection caught a car coming into frame quickly, I didn't have to do my typical tracking before the corner like I would with the X-T4. It seemed much stickier than previous cameras and could switch subjects incredibly quickly.

I was blown away by the speed it picked up the grandkids, they didn’t have a chance to even turn away before I had their picture taken. 😁

Ya, if you are close to focus and it sees a face, bam sharp! You can drop the shutter in preparation taking a short burst and catch the magic moments.

Morris

Yeah but at one point my grand daughter was 150 to 200 feet away and it still picked her head up.

Tiny in the screen or a long lens?

Morris

35mm F/1.4 she was fairly small in the screen at the time.

I had a Z6 that would lose the subject beyond 15 feet it could no longer see the eyes. The X-T4 was a little bit further than that but both took a second to find the eye and sometimes lost the eye. When the A7 3 launched I tested one and that was losing eyes when people turned their heads.

This is the best AF system I’ve ever used.

That's great! Sony A1 would not track a distance bird for me. Nikon Z9 did. It is great news that the X-H2s will do this, at least for humans.

Morris

This was aggressively cropped - part of a 50 image burst at 28fps (the 40fps setting with focus release priority). The conditions were good and a fairly plain background.

This was essentially point and shoot - the camera identified the bird and controlled the focussing.

This is the EXIF for one of the images that shows the camera identified both the body and head of the bird (and focussed on the head).

It started to lose it a bit towards the end of the burst but it seems to have done a good job of identification.

It's great that the camera is doing that.  Tomorrow I'll be posting two fledgling swallow tail images where the bird was about that size in the frame before cropping taken with my X-T3 and 500mm PF.

I'm real happy with the Canon 200mm f2.8 L II you took these with.  I think you are who pointed it out.

Morris