X-H2S subject tracking miss

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

Powerdoc 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.

The bird is like a cameleon same colors , same pattern as the ground. AI does not yet doing miracles.

If Wide Area was used, the camera focused on the closet thing with contrast as it was told.

Morris

But wide/area wasn't used - single point was used for the first two and zone for the last two. Your theories make a lot of sense when not using subject tracking but I think we are all expecting too much from a low powered processor - a small section of code - and FujiFilm software development. We all look at those photos and its obvious where the birds are - the camera just isn't that clever.

I did not go back and read the original post for the photos, my mistake. Here it is:

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.

Missing information, what AF-C settings were used with Zone.

Frankly, the photographer still needs to tell the camera what to do.  It is not clear if this was done.  This is true with every camera that has subject tracking and only the photographers that master the setup and learn the weaknesses succeed.

I have not seen evidence that the subject tracking is working in the situations where it makes a difference for a skilled photographer.  Is this that situation, possibly.  Misses on a simple subject, that's interesting and the photographer did the correct thing taking over control with single point.

What I'd love to see is someone photographing a challenging subject such as swallow tails in flight over grass or water with things growing.  Take a bunch of images with subject tracking on and also with it off and compare the hit rate of images with the subject in the frame.

Morris