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X-H2S subject tracking miss

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CeeDave
CeeDave Senior Member • Posts: 2,208
Re: X-H2S subject tracking miss

Morris0 wrote:

Mikeywcu wrote:

CeeDave wrote:

Mikeywcu wrote:

We took the kids for a spontaneous trip to DC to hit the Natural History Museum. People eat right outside of the museum, so the birds get close. We sat and had ice cream, and someone had left a crumbled cracker in the dirt. I had the xh2s and the 33 1.4, and I couldn’t believe the degree to which it struggled to recognize the birds, especially since they were within two feet. Zone focus, using the joystick to put focus right over the birds…still…many misses.

You are shooting low contrast backlit subjects at f/1.4, for no apparent reason. This looks like user error, not a camera problem, to me.

Love the “no apparent reason” part.

Sure, open to the feedback. It wasn’t a bird outing…just snapping. Still, I was surprised at the degree to which the cam struggled to actually locate the birds while focusing.

Birds are usually shot wide open.

Morris

But not at such short distances, and not at f/1.4, which does affect focus depth, I think. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I’d love to see other bird photos at f/1.4.

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