Re: Z8 extremely unreliable/inconsistent AF in mildly low light
I’m going to stand by what I said and your post reveals a misunderstanding. If you walk around taking pictures of people with just ambient, at speeds 1/200th or slower, you cannot rule out motion blur. That’s just a fact. With 40+ editorials under my belt covering movement/dance, I know it’s 1/500th or faster or the images aren’t sharp. You’ll never get an image in focus while you or the subject are moving, or I should say when you get a shape image it’s mostly chance. And when you’re shooting slower than 1/500 (maybe 1/1000) even when the camera confirms focus for you, the time it takes the camera to acquire the subject, and the time the shutter fires, blur can happen.
Now, given all of that, if you’re shooting a low powered flash “for flash duration”, you forfeit any of that benefit if the ambient exposure matches or even closely approaches the strobe’s output. You cannot hope to get sharp images using flash duration, if you’re below 1/500th shutter *and* the strobe is not sufficiently dominating the ambient exposure. Just facts. This is true of any camera and lighting system.
May 01, 2024 at 01:48 PM
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