i am completely the opposite. i find AF on the rx1 to be mostly useless. it can\'t focus on anything moving at all and it misses on stationary objects like 5% of the time. i pretty much only use it with face detect if i\'m trying to get an angle i can\'t see the lcd from or when i have something else in my other hand.
I think it\'s just a matter of our shooting styles. I really only shoot wide open for portrait-type stuff, where movement isn\'t much of an issue, so shooting scenes in the f5.6-f11 range usually covers any kind of slight AF miss. Heck, I\'ve even begun to experiment successfully with multi-point AF, which I don\'t think I\'ve ever used before getting this camera. Another trick is to AF on the ground, or something else static, near where the moving object is.
There are certainly times where I prefer MF with the RX1, but not enough to give up AF functionality. In other words, I prefer acceptable manual focus feel with the AF option over fantastic manual focus feel and no AF option...unless maybe if the camera had a rangefinder. I do still wish the camera didn\'t default to infinity focus when you turn the camera off then on, and the distance scale should be better.
i am completely the opposite. i find AF on the rx1 to be mostly useless. it can\'t focus on anything moving at all and it misses on stationary objects like 5% of the time. i pretty much only use it with face detect if i\'m trying to get an angle i can\'t see the lcd from or when i have something else in my other hand.
I think it\'s just a matter of our shooting styles. I really only shoot wide open for portrait-type stuff, where movement isn\'t much of an issue, so shooting scenes in the f5.6-f11 range usually covers any kind of slight AF miss. Heck, I\'ve even begun to experiment successfully with multi-point AF, which I don\'t think I\'ve ever used before getting this camera. Another trick is to AF on the ground, or something else static, near where the moving object is.
There are certainly times where I prefer MF with the RX1, but not enough to give up AF functionality. In other words, I prefer acceptable manual focus feel with the AF option over fantastic manual focus feel and no AF option. I do still wish the camera didn\'t default to infinity focus when you turn the camera off then on, and the distance scale should be better.
Nov 05, 2013 at 12:20 PM
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