SpecFoto wrote:
Well Chris I like my focusing method, been using it with my first DSLR since 2001 and with film bodies long before that since my first AF camera in the early 80's.
Not interested in AI anything, AI to me means Artificial IDIOT, probably a result of watching too many SciFi flicks where the robots took over and tried to kill everyone. Even touch screens are turned off on my cameras..... OK, I am set in my ways, I want to be in full control of my photos, but have never been called Clunky and Outdated before, not even by my 1 generation younger, beautiful Thai wife….ha ha. Suppose you like self-drive cars too... me I will keep my 4WD off-road Jeep for backcountry travel and 6 speed manual shift Boxster for roadside fun, for as long as I can. To each their own...
Actually tried the A7CR tracking method, but I found is a bit slow and not always focusing on what I wanted, and with no joystick it was ineffective for me at times. OK, you can press the center button on the 4-way pad and then hit the outer rings to move the focus, but what a time delay and PITA, just give us a joystick next to the af-on button instead Sony.
Below is a 2 shot sequence, 1 second apart, I took 2 days ago that I captured because by moving the XT5 joystick it was possible to quickly grab AF in a moving situation. Was focusing on the long row of tiny flowers up close with my XF 35 f1.4 lens (the classic, slow focusing one ) when she walked into the distant view, I panned the camera while moving the AF point to 30 feet away, got the shot and went back to shooting the flowers without her ever knowing. My A7CR most likely yes, but my XE5 with no joystick or 4-way pad it's highly unlikely it would have got this in focus in the time allotted, imho. Just saying the XT5 works better for me then you give it credit for, with really no downsides. ...Show more →
Being afraid of AI and bragging about a Boxster and a Jeep is such a weak boomer flex ! Oooh, you can drive a stick, another lame boomer flex. ! I can do a boomer flex too, 6 of my 7 vehicles are sticks. My LC200/LX570 mashup is fine as an auto. And I'm assembling the parts to do a e60 M5 wagon conversion with the s85 which will also be a stick. No self driving or goofy EV's for me, every vehicle I own or will own was made from the early 70's to the early 2010's - no digital gauge clusters or touchscreen HAVC controls for me. Ever.
Geoff D F wrote:
It's not that complicated. You can think of it as C1-7 change global settings including recipes, Fs1-3 change recipes but not global settings, and other positions on the film sim dial just change the film sim.
I actually find it pretty useful.
As for wanting to change other things, the front lever is really useful. I have it set to change C1-7 settings pulling left, aspect ratio toggling right, then ISO, and further film sims with the long pull.
I literally said that having the Film Sim dial would possibly fix my biggest issue with the C settings on modern Fujis, so I'm not sure why you're acting like what I said was contrarian. It would be VERY useful.
joychris wrote:
I don't use BBAF because its a clunky and outdated method of focusing on Sony's AI bodies, and most of the time I don't even use the joystick - I take advantage of the AI capabilities. I use the expand flexible box with lock on activated by a back button stab to engage tracking on whatever I put the focus box on. I also have tap to track on the LCD. Point, hit the button or tap the screen, and fire away at will. It tracks everything until you disengage or plant the focus box on something else and hit the button again. It's really amazing. Accuracy is almost perfect, and more importantly in video the tracking is just unbeatable. It's so sticky, makes it painless to chase a small child or kingfishers zooming around. I've owned the R5II and rented a XH2s to see if the other's are close - they aren't. Neither is my Nikon.
But that's ok since I already have those bases covered.
The XPro4 rumors have been around for years, and given Fuji's current prices it'll probably be well over $2000 and hard to find since they don't have the foresight to slow production of the other 428 bodies they sell in order to ramp up production of anything before releasing creating artificial shortages. I may have exaggerated the number of X Mount bodies by 5 or 6 though !
The XE5 seems to fit the bill nicely. Again appreciate the time.
It's a matter of principle, and control, single point af-s and BBF the photographer is deciding the point of focus, just as with manual focus. If you want to give us that control and allow software to determine the focus point you are giving up one of the fundamentals that show, even at such a basic level, how go9d you are as a photographer, in the purely technical sense.
) when she walked into the distant view, I panned the camera while moving the AF point to 30 feet away, got the shot and went back to shooting the flowers without her ever knowing. My A7CR most likely yes, but my XE5 with no joystick or 4-way pad it's highly unlikely it would have got this in focus in the time allotted, imho. Just saying the XT5 works better for me then you give it credit for, with really no downsides.