I'm new to Fuji and my first impression about the AF performance was mixed. It seems capable mostly, keeping focus on a bike moving towards mit with F1.6, that's good. Using it in boost more of course.
1: What was terrible though was tracking a person through a crowd, nothing complex, not looking away, no special makeup or glasses.
I tried using wide/tracking, that one that comes with a starting AF spot, initially it locks onto the person I want, but just a second later it starts to jump to about everyone it can find (the advanced AF setting "stay on subject, ignore obstacles" does not change anything.
What seems to help is disable eye tracking in the menu (can I put that on a button directly?).
Or even the whole face tracking and track people as an object, but for shallow depth of field I would at least want to keep face tracking if it works (still have to test it). The top right button is assigned for disabling the whole face tracking, but maybe I can keep face and just disable eyes quickly if such a situation occurs.
Is this a bug or standard behaviour, never encountered this on Canon or Sony, those are able to stick to the selected subject even in a crowd.
2: Another thing is that I'm used to a mode where the camera AF watches the whole frame and detects a single frame filling person's eyes for a portrait shot.
Again this would be the wide/tracking option right? But as this still comes with a spot AF point I noticed that if the face is not near the spot it's really slow to find the eyes or does not bother at all.
So I decided to take a custom zone and make it fill the full frame, this seems to to better, is that the correct way to go?
3: From other cameras I'm used to have 2 AF modes available at once, one on the shutter another one on a back button. For example I keep the spot assisted tracking on the shutter, so I can tell the camera what to follow, and have the full frame auto AF on a back button to quickly capture and easy scene close by, is that possible with Fuji at all?
1: What was terrible though was tracking a person through a crowd, nothing complex, not looking away, no special makeup or glasses.
I tried using wide/tracking, that one that comes with a starting AF spot, initially it locks onto the person I want, but just a second later it starts to jump to about everyone it can find (the advanced AF setting "stay on subject, ignore obstacles" does not change anything.
What seems to help is disable eye tracking in the menu (can I put that on a button directly?).
Or even the whole face tracking and track people as an object, but for shallow depth of field I would at least want to keep face tracking if it works (still have to test it). The top right button is assigned for disabling the whole face tracking, but maybe I can keep face and just disable eyes quickly if such a situation occurs.
Is this a bug or standard behaviour, never encountered this on Canon or Sony, those are able to stick to the selected subject even in a crowd.
2: Another thing is that I'm used to a mode where the camera AF watches the whole frame and detects a single frame filling person's eyes for a portrait shot.
Again this would be the wide/tracking option right? But as this still comes with a spot AF point I noticed that if the face is not near the spot it's really slow to find the eyes or does not bother at all.
So I decided to take a custom zone and make it fill the full frame, this seems to to better, is that the correct way to go?
3: From other cameras I'm used to have 2 AF modes available at once, one on the shutter another one on a back button. For example I keep the spot assisted tracking on the shutter, so I can tell the camera what to follow, and have the full frame auto AF on a back button to quickly capture and easy scene close by, is that possible with Fuji at all?
