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What's the deal with the X-T5 autofocus?

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gdanmitchell
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Re: What's the deal with the X-T5 autofocus?
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janist74 quoted, then commented on:

"All that said, I am not getting a worse hit rate than (I hate to admit this) than an A1 or Z9. But I have not put my H2 through any truly demanding events."

I do think this post gets an an important misconception however, that being that the real-world standard for AF performance is 100% perfect accuracy in all situations. No AF system does that in situations other than with a well-lit, static subject. Subjects move — forward, backward, up, down, diagonally — and then pass in front of and behind and near other potential subjects. We often make a photograph quickly without as much time as we might want to carefully frame and locate AF points.

So to say that a camera doesn't get 100% accurately AF doesn't really tell us that much. More useful is knowing when and how it fails and whether the failures are above the rate typical of other cameras in similar situations.

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