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X-H2S subject tracking miss

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Greybeard2017
Greybeard2017 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,112
Re: X-H2S subject tracking miss

FCi wrote:

I don't pretend to know anything about birding or taking photos of birds, this was very much a coincidence.

On a recent walk in a park, a Robin decided to land and hop around about 10-15 meters away so I decided to take a few shots. I had the X-H2S with the 70-300, and switched over to bird subject tracking. The OSD kept showing a focus lock on the birds eye, but then kept focusing on the grass behind it.

Admittedly the robin wasn't fully in the sun. After several moments waiting for the camera to actually lock on, I gave up and turned subject tracking off, relying on wide-tracking instead to lock on to the bird.

Tried turning subject tracking back on...

It was very strange, as the indicators for AF were right on the bird and its eye. It was a bit of a disappointing performance, but it's early days on this camera. Perhaps a firmware update will make subject tracking more reliable.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm surprised it couldn't lock on - especially the one where you switched to wide/area tracking.

I've had problems with tracking birds with a busy background - but not just sitting there.

Can you share the original of the last one so that we can see the settings?

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