This photo Brutus from Sweden did hands on reviews with the Dutch promoteam. Read (with the help of Google translation) that he finds the 50D autofocus now better than the 1D AF Have EOSfun!
eosfun wrote:
This photo Brutus from Sweden did hands on reviews with the Dutch promoteam. Read (with the help of Google translation) that he finds the 50D autofocus now better than the 1D AF
He does not claim better, but says it seems faster.... and this by someone who owns both 1D3 and 1Ds3 and make a living out of photographing birds....
When I took up my EOS 1 D Mark III and did the same thing was the result is less convincing, I have seen Mark III-s as fast, but EOS 50 D was clearly faster. I repeated the manoeuvre a dozen times with two cameras.
As in all cases, the motive still is my assessment that the EOS 50D has probably the world's fastest auto focus.
Subjective and yes he was comparing to the 1D III in the same circumstsances. So... Yes it apparently does track very very fast. But it will loose small items as they move of the centre point before they move to the next point - so not the ultimate sports camera (which the author goes on to aknowledge). But looking promising...
Anyway the new DIGIC 4 and AF unit algorithms are clealry not that shabby :P .... And the 50D AF sensor is thermally stable and very sensitive (lots of tests here). However for sports it really needs some extra helper focus points on which it apparetnly is even better (or so I am told)... So the whole DIGIC 4 based set of cameras this year and next year will be very interesting ;-)
PetKal wrote:
Faster to acquire focus ? Focus lock stability ? Sensitivity ? Accuracy ?
"Faster" alone does not mean heck of a lot to me.
My 40D in Servo AF is faster than my 20D when acquiring focus. Yet, 40D misfocuses more often.
OK then, here's my quick translation (Swedish is my native language):
Brutus writes the following in Swedish:
I one-shot-läget ställde jag skärpan på min 300/2,8 IS på oändligt, riktade kameran på gruset tre meter bort och tryckte av. Jag upprepade proceduren med olika motiv nära närgränsen, och skärpan satt där blixtsnabbt varje gång. Förbluffande snabbt, måste jag tillägga.
Jag testade kameran även med zoomen 70-200/2,8 och lät den sedan ställa in fokuseringen kontinuerligt med båda objektiven, medan jag mycket snabbt panorerade nedåt från stranden 200 meter bort på andra sidan vattnet till vattenytan några meter framför mig. Fokus följde med hela tiden.
This is my translation:
Using one shot mode, I set the focus of my 300/2.8 IS to infinity, aimed the camera at the gravel 3 meters away and pressed the shutter button. I repeated the procedure with different subjects that were near the closest focusing distance, and it nailed the focus lightning quick every time. Surprisingly fast, I must add.
I also tested the camera with the 70-200/2.8 zoom, and let it focus continuously (I assume he means AI Servo - translator's comment) using both lenses while I very quickly panned from the beach 200 meters away on the other side of the water to the surface just a few meters in front of me. The focus was never lost.
He goes on to mention that he repeated the tests using a 1D MkIII. The 50D was noticably faster, and it most likely has the quickest autofocus of any digital camera.
Brutus is an excellent photographer (one of the best bird-photographers)and very capable of testing it.
But you should also know that he is paid by Canon to do advertising for this camera.
Wow, Brutus Östling, one of my all-time role models... The photos look really nice. Especially the microwave.
Regarding being paid, he says "Jag fick en ersättning för att vara med i produktfilmerna. Jag får emellertid ingen ersättning av Canon för att skriva detta." ("I received compensation for taking part in the commercials. I receive, however, no compensation from Canon to write this"), and I'm sure he values his reputation highly enough not to sell us BS...
bias_hjorth wrote:
I`m amazed to see that people can´t recognize that this is the exact same marketing strategy as Nikon did with the D3 launch.
Would you be amazed to hear that this is the same strategy the company I work in uses? And our competitors? Everyone does the same thing, if they can. They usually try to stay honest, though, because the competition would find them out and pounce on them...
But you should also know that he is paid by Canon to do advertising for this camera.
So what's wrong of being paid for photography? Or would you imply that Brutus would change a critical opinion into smooth talk for Canon if he was not behind that opinion and give up all of his credibility? It seems to me that he found the real EOSfun in shooting that 50D and he shares it with us and he made some convincing pictures and a great story about the use of this camera in real life.
Antje wrote:
Would you be amazed to hear that this is the same strategy the company I work in uses? And our competitors? Everyone does the same thing, if they can. They usually try to stay honest, though, because the competition would find them out and pounce on them...
Have EOSfun!
