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Wishes for the next x100

Started 4 months ago | Discussions thread
Jeff Biscuits Senior Member • Posts: 1,166
Re: Wishes for the next x100

DarnGoodPhotos wrote:

The X100V has a customizable focal limiter which can be assigned to an Fn buttons and used similarly to snap focus.

Sort of. It’s a significantly inferior substitute. There are some minor issues (you can only have one setting, the camera still seems to drive the AF motor, etc) but the main issue is that it largely doesn’t work in focus-priority mode, because if it doesn’t find something in the focus area that’s at the exact distance you’ve set, it doesn’t achieve focus and therefore won’t fire the shutter.

If you switch to release-priority mode then it essentially works, but now you’ve got two settings to change every time you want to switch between AF and fixed focus.

Anyway… having tried it, it’s not a good enough replacement for proper fixed focus IMO. YMMV.

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