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

Started 4 months ago | Discussions thread
wansai Regular Member • Posts: 411
Re: I think there is enough evidence
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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.

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