"Would be interesting if he extended it to assess LV and PD on moving targets and at what point LV fails."
Valid comment and my question τοο when Ι fnished reading these articles. Especially after the great impovement of the AF speed of latest Olympus/Panasonic cameras.
What I really liked in these tests is that the combination of last generation of cameras + last generation of lenses is much improved in the Canon ecosystem. I believe that the rest ought to do the same, if they have not already. And they better publish it accordingly. What I did not like is that one needs to change all ones gear for best results. Upgrading the camera only will not neccessarily mean that the lenses are upgraded too. FW updates maybe?
A dear friend has told me a few times that the PD AF method can not be further improved. It has been a long time around and what to be done is already done. This tests show that mirrorless probably gave a good push to the dSLR manufacturerers to find ways to improve their methods for improving accurnacy and repeatability of their AF methods.
After quite a few months of AF problems due to a combination of
a certainly problematic camera,
another camera without AF-FA abilities that maybe moved its fix/setting over time
a brand new zoom lens with different AF-FA setting for the long vs short end of it's zoom from day 1
2 lenses bought new that started presenting the above problem after a couple of years of usage
several attempts of service
I conclude to the following
"If you want to shoot wide aperture prime lenses and you don’t want to use microfocus adjustment, you just refuse to cope with reality. " as the reviewers say
There should be a law to ban selling dSLR/dSLT cameras without AF-FA available to the user
Camera companies (maybe lens companies too) should offer us a clear and easy method for adjusting the AF-FA. Especially now that (almost) all dSLRs offer cdaf along dpaf in their live liew mode.
Dear Roland, I don't believe that these reports say that "Phase detection AF is problematic." It clearly notes that any camera+lens combination needs calibration or that there is a clear and obvious need that cameras and lenses producers should allow for smaller variations of AF accurancy before releasing a product in the market. I strongly believe in the second sentence. Now the comparison with the CD live view cameras does not allow for further cheating.
Kind REgards,
Spyros