Re: Z8 extremely unreliable/inconsistent AF in mildly low light
RoamingScott wrote: SCoombs wrote:I haven't formally tested it, but I also have found that it seems like when the evf displays the actual exposure that focus is more accurate if it doesn't look too overexposed since even if highlights are not blown, the AF system operates off the evf feed and had a harder time when detail is lacking due to overexposure.
You have been told this numerous times in this thread by people who understand the camera better than you.
No, I have not been told this. What people have said, and what I assure you I understood long before a lot of other people I would see on forums (ie, before Thom Hogan "confirmed" it so people started believing it) is that the camera does AF off of the evf feed and so it needs *sufficient* exposure.
That's not at all the same thing as saying that *overexposure* and exposure to the right can also decrease AF performance because of a lack of detail in the highlights. It is not the consensus that lack of *shadow* detail decreases performance. Whether lack of *highlight* detail does as well is something I have seen discussed here and elsewhere but which people are generallynleas sure of.
May 01, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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