X-H2S subject tracking miss

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

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

Here is my bet - if it was me then I would get a higher hit rate with subject tracking on - if it was you then it would be a higher hit rate with subject tracking off.

:-}

I was shooting swallows in flight yesterday and had about 50% of the in frame birds in focus.  Of the ones that were not in focus, it was divided about evenly between nothing in focus and focus on the background which was long marsh grass.  If subject tracking is working properly, I'd expect less focused on the grass.  If it is working great, then many more should be sharp.

I was shooting off an elevated walk over the marsh and observing the swallows flight patterns.  When I saw one that was going to come within range, I'd pick it up and 1/2 press as soon as it's in frame.  Then start a burst when I felt the bird was sharp.  As they are super fast, there is little time between each step and I suspect sometimes I'm fooled into thinking the bird is sharp.  One thing that has always amazed me about Fuji cameras is they will track an out of focus subject and keep it the same amount out of focus.  With my camera set for focus priority, it must think it's in focus.

Morris