Focus priority defiantly results in sharp images when in AF-C. It can also result in missed images. Which would you rather have? Slightly soft or missing the moment?
"Release" priority - some prefer blasting away give me everything even if out of focus or slightly off.
Sony added "Balanced Emphasis" as default option for a reason. Sounds like innovation. Still not the best, but it balances between the two. Maybe Fuji will add this too. It is a suggestion. Adv users can still choose "release" or "priority", but the rest can get more out of balanced.
Not my idle (idol) whatever. Just someone that sparked chatter on a subject that might or might not be an issue. Reference him since the debate around release/focus priority originated there.
I would think "professionals" would do whatever it takes to make "money"
Really? I thought pros rarely change their equipment for that exact reason, that what they already know with their tried and true equipment won’t translate exactly to the new set up without a bit of time and work.
No clue what the algorithm for "balanced emphasis" is or how it determine which mode to use. Maybe it starts tracking with "focus" priority until it notice subject is moving faster than usual and switches to "release" dynamically.
Has Fuji changed from the default being Focus? That's what it was on the X-T3. It is release on the X-H2s.
All I can say is that if "others might not realise options exist beyond default", then they should look to themselves. How can one possibly make best use of technology if one does not take the time/trouble (after spending £1700 or any currency) to understand the settings and set them according to the subject matter?
Exactly. So, if upgrading within the same system is going to take as much time and work to get such a basic feature as AF-C to work as advertised, for some users it can make more sense to invest that time into understanding another system that, along with other advantages, will provide more reliable results in that department with the same or less time and effort.
Agree Implementation is different, ease of use as well, but final perfomance probably quite close.
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Well said sir! And the skill in using the tool effectively is USTP!
There is no EXEF data here so the remainder is conjecture. But depending on your f- stop the DOF of the selected f-stop could make the difference in contrast between the eyes statistically equal. In that case the choice between eyes is a coin toss. That is an issue with the stochastic of the AF since that's how the decision is made. Also I believe that Fuji (at least) don't know about the rest, uses a smaller f-stop than what might be selected during the tracking process to track focus. Again DOF will then play a roll in determining the statistics that go to determine the AF.I was having problems until I made some setting changes (release on focus, turn OFF AF+MF). It's a bit arcane and seems unnecessary to have to do it, but once it's done, the AF & tracking is pretty good. Even saying that, I still find the Sony A7C to have better AF than the XT5. Or at least, even the lower Sony's are more reliable for AF.
The XT5 eye AF has a tendency to jump from left and right eye even when you specify which eye you want; like what happened in my daughter's photo here. The eye AF couldn't seem to decide which eye and even after I selected the eye I wanted, it jumped to the left right as I hit shutter release.
A scene like this would have been easy peasy with my Sony. Saying that, I do really like the XT5. You can work around this roughness. You can probably rightly argue that at this price bracket you shouldn't have to, but it is what it is; and as a whole the XT5 is a superb camera.
Oh come on - no offense meant - many here expect perfection which is why these food fights keep coming up. AF and tracking are statistical processes. No, let me repeat NO, systems estimating a stochastic process is perfect. In fact - perfect doesn't exist. What does is probabilities. On Fuji - change AFC priority from release to focus and the probability of focus changes (goes up). Change tracking parameters to better match the motion of the subject, the probabilities of success (good focus) goes up.
It's "release" on X-T5 as default.
You would get this response in any forum, beyond this website. Go ahead and express your opinions, but online forums are not for the faint-hearted: the anonymity of the keyboard doesn't lend itself to polite discourse. In any case, beneath all the vitriol there's a good discussion going on here. As a bonus, you get new candidates for you Ignore List ;-)
--I have used the XPro2 as my main camera since it first came out. What improvements can I expect from the T5? Thank you in advance.
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