Some questions to the XT5 early owners…

Guyps wrote:

Yannis1976 wrote:

1) how is the app and overall experience transferring photos from camera to phone? In my XT3 it was pretty bad failing quite a few times and also being slow. Any upgrade there?

2) how is the face/eye CAF with the older 35/1.4? More portraits and children keepers or no improvement?

3) how effective is the ibis? Can you create light trails handheld at night?

4) how is the new grip vs the xt3? Have never used the xt4…

thank you all

I’ve not had much chance to use it yet as I’ve been working and now we are on a vacation in the rainy uk

i transferred some photos to my s22 ultra last night fine and posted to insta. But I’ve not had much trouble before with my xt3 to be honest.

don’t have the 35 1.4

hopefully test the ibis later in the winter wonderland.

the grip is much improved. There is a thread on here saying show us your xt5. I posted a top down pic of the 3 and 5.
I have the new 23 1.4 mounted and it used to require a really tight hold to shoot single handed. Now it is fine!

i set my t5 to be at 10fps as the t3 was max 11 anyway. I’ve only done a quick burst at home and it seemed to burst ok with my Standish extreme 170. If you have a 300 it will be better. I’ll soon find out if it is good enough for football action.

Previously I have mostly used the ‘select photos on camera’ to send. But this time I had a taken a load of shots of animals. I went in the camera and those that I liked the look of and were really sharp, I set the rating to 5 star. Then I managed to filter the 5 star photos and send them all. Worked fine. Again this is android. Maybe it’s just apple people that are struggling with the app?

the bird AF worked well on birds. Not so much on the close up of a swans head. As it it’s not  a traditional bird shape so expected that.