Again, no one has said in this thread that they are having problems with the D5/D500 AF. All we've come to understand by testing (and confirmed by numerous members who tried Steve's tests) is that the Dynamic modes are offering no benefit over the Single Point mode. The way they are set up to work in this new system is basically making them behave like single point where once the Delay time is over the focus jumps to whatever is under the main point and doesn't continue to use the 25 or 72 or 153 points to track the initial subject. Most of us haven't had an issue with this if we do our job fast enough to get our main point back on target before the delay ends or if we are shooting against a plain/no contrast background. Still the system is not doing much at all to help the user as it is described in the manual.
Still, again no one has really claimed they were having issues with it, we just know it isn't doing much for us after this testing.
And please give Steve a little more respect. To someone who has contributed a lot of free advice and great videos on his YT channel he deserves it.
Agree fully! I am one of us out in the wilderness who eagerly await ordering Steve's magnus opus on Nikon AF :-) :-)
There may well be some photographers who learn all they need from official manuals (including the online Tech Notes), yet these Discussion forums and carefully written 3rd party guidebooks to camera gear that continue to operate as very useful lifelines.
In too many countries, what passes for Nikon support is the subject of bared canines. Sadly, Nikon's failures drive veterans of a fine and venerable camera system elsewhere. There seem to be the favoured few who enjoy special support from the company but too many of us have to muddle along as best one can. And at continual expense and wasted time. Besides the fiasco of problems with the D800 and D600 cameras, there was (is?) the more recent debacle of misbehaving VR on some copies of the 300 f4E PF, about which posters to NikonGear shared their frustrations with being let down by official lines of Nikon Support in certain countries.
Mar 28, 2017 at 08:14 AM
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