With every new camera we learn of new advancements in autofocus, including AI-driven autofocus. DPReview's Matt Waller wants to know what it's going to take to get some love and innovation for manual focus.
Articles tagged "af"
The 75mm T1.9 is the first of what will be a five-lens series of autofocus cinema lenses for Sony E-mount camera systems.
The details remain scarce, but according to a conversation a DPReview forum member had with a Viltrox representative, Canon told the third-party optics manufacturer 'to stop selling all RF mount products.'
The lens comes in at an incredibly reasonable price point, complete with a stepping motor autofocus system and an onboard Micro USB port for updating firmware.
Aleksi Koski's new AF-equipped Conflict AF45 4x5 large format camera, which is currently in the functional prototype stage, hopes to bring back the days of handheld large format photography.
Stephen Dowling, founder of Kosmo Foto, has shared a video highlighting five different 35mm autofocus point-and-shoot cameras that you can still pick up online for under $100 or so.
In 1981, Canon introduced its first and only autofocus lens for the FD system, the 35-70mm F4 AF. It's a fascinating lens, and YouTuber Kai W has gone hands-on with it on a Sony A1 to see if the archaic AF lens still works in 2021.
A smaller and lighter version of an existing lens joins the XCD system bringing with it a smaller price and a smaller maximum aperture too.
Firmware version 2.00 brings Sony's AI-powered Real-Time Animal Eye AF to its flagship bridge camera, the RX10 IV.
The 15 second video teases upcoming support for eye-detection autofocus with Nikon's Z6 and Z7 cameras.
Canon's EOS R, the company's first full-frame mirrorless camera, impresses us with its image quality and color rendition. But it also comes with quirky ergonomics, uninspiring video features and a number of other shortcomings. Read our full review to see how the EOS R stacks up in today's full-frame mirrorless market.
YouTuber ZY Productions has a video wherein he provides a succinct summary of how phase detection autofocus systems work, their benefits and their shortcomings.
Some history of Nikon's lens generations and information about the difference between non-AI, AI, AI-S, AF and AF-S lenses.
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III has a very sophisticated and complex AF System. The possible combinations to tweak the AF properties are basically unlimited, so especially for beginners it can be hard to assess which configuration will yield the best results.
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