So, any improvement with the new firmware? And how's the 500pf on the XH2S?
molson wrote:
One of my first shots after updating to firmware 5.0. It's not claimed to make any improvements to the AF accuracy, but you never know...
Interesting. I had not heard about colour shift/hunting using the 500 pf on the XH2S. Indeed it's very sharp!
Keep us posted on how the Fuji lens compares. Add I am usually shooting in low lights, so I think I would find the variable aperture annoying and have gotten used to the fixed F5.6 on my 500pf.
molson wrote:
It's too early to tell if the firmware helped with AF accuracy.
The 500PF is very sharp (check out the white-crowned sparrow image above), but unless you're in bright sunlight, it hunts too much, and with the Fringer adapter it seems to have a strong colour shift on the X-H2S. On the other hand, it doesn't have the constant aperture noise that you get with the 300PF on the adapter. Both PF lenses are really nice, but I decided to put them both up for sale and ordered the XF 150-600 to replace them.
molson wrote:
It's too early to tell if the firmware helped with AF accuracy.
The 500PF is very sharp (check out the white-crowned sparrow image above), but unless you're in bright sunlight, it hunts too much, and with the Fringer adapter it seems to have a strong colour shift on the X-H2S. On the other hand, it doesn't have the constant aperture noise that you get with the 300PF on the adapter. Both PF lenses are really nice, but I decided to put them both up for sale and ordered the XF 150-600 to replace them.
Hopefully the XF 150-600mm gives you the results and flexibility you're looking for.
I recently sold my 500mm PF to help fund the purchase of the 800mm PF. There are a few snaps from my first outing with the lens here
One thing I find with the 150-600mm is when you zoom the image goes weird. It could be due to its an internal zoom as this is my first experience with a long internal zoom lens. I've never experienced this with an external zoom lens.
I look forward to your impressions of the lens once you've had time to get used to it. I find I'm getting more keepers by limiting the sequence of shots, and allowing the body refocusing between them.
My first bald eagle. It's a pretty deep crop from XT5 but there were only a couple of shots that would have been usable before he was gone and it stuck them.
Hi Molson. Your last pic of the hummingbird is very beautiful, the colors and characteristics of this little fellow help for sure but the clean green background and nice missy branch help as well ,
The focus seems to be more on the colorful neck ring than on the eye but I will still take this shot anytime if I could cheers
molson wrote:
It always does... regardless of where it actually decides to focus.
Fuji's subject recognition algorithms obviously work - now they just need to get that AI to communicate a little more consistently with the AF system.
Yeah I think in closer shots where you have high detail and thin DoF it makes the slight misses more noticeable.
I was playing with the XT5 recently and it seems to have improved a lot from my XT3, picked out an eagle from partially obstructed behind and island and kept with it. A work in progress but at least with the ML/AI tech it's doing training with tons of data that improves it so if it's a software issue the tech will improve. This also explains why Sony is keeping the lead as things improve as well. They were at it first.
Holy cow. I had the exact same thing. I didn’t notice it until I was standing in the Fuji service centre. Exactly the same. Lens mount wiggled a bit. Top right and bottom left corners weren’t in focus. Ended up having them tighten the mount and change some rollers. Cost like 400. It’s working way better now. So much sharper than before. That’s wild you had it too. Mine had always been like that too and from what I read online others had the same issue with a bit of a loose mount so I never really looked into it that deeply.
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