Re: Z8 extremely unreliable/inconsistent AF in mildly low light
SCoombs wrote:
I just thought of what seems to be a potential parallel here:
Over the past few months there were posts from people complaining that their Z8s were doing weird white balance things. Their photos all had weird color casts. Many users responded to them in the same way some people are responding about this AF thing: insisting that their camera doesn't do it and none of their peers' cameras do it and so therefore it must be a defective camera or user error. The people talking about the color casts had come looking for help and were being left to defend themselves against al l sorts of statements that they were the problem.
Then lo and behold firmware 2.01 came out and it had a fix for this color cast issue, and it turns out that the color cast happened to some Z8s but not all.
It's worth considering if your view is that there can't be variation in camera bodies or that your own experience of the camera working fine must mean everyone who reports anything different must be wrong.
Well we all can only report from our own experience. Sure color cast problem occurs in some z8 but majority of people dont have this problem so the one who dont have this problem suppose to say there is a problem for all z8? The response it must be the specific camera seems the most appropriate, no? For low light af, as much as younstruggle with it, other people, myself included just dont see it. You can look in my profile, the only time I won thread of the week was when I showed picture from my first time doing black water diving ( scuba diving at night hanging out in the middle of deep water with a few light source to attract the rarer critters). The condition was much much more challenging than your or Snapsy test condition using 60/2.8g macro and ftz adapter with z8 shooting at 0.3 to 1 m using f8 with small flashlight as focus light. I dont have a good explanation why you struggle but certainly my z8 af-c very reliably and I was shooting 2fps ( because my underwater strobe would not recycle much faster than that). Some people have similar experience that you do but it is across the boards. Many people also dont have similar experience at all. How do you want us who have no bad expperience like you say?
Re: Z8 extremely unreliable/inconsistent AF in mildly low light
SCoombs wrote:
I just thought of what seems to be a potential parallel here:
Over the past few months there were posts from people complaining that their Z8s were doing weird white balance things. Their photos all had weird color casts. Many users responded to them in the same way some people are responding about this AF thing: insisting that their camera doesn't do it and none of their peers' cameras do it and so therefore it must be a defective camera or user error. The people talking about the color casts had come looking for help and were being left to defend themselves against al l sorts of statements that they were the problem.
Then lo and behold firmware 2.01 came out and it had a fix for this color cast issue, and it turns out that the color cast happened to some Z8s but not all.
It's worth considering if your view is that there can't be variation in camera bodies or that your own experience of the camera working fine must mean everyone who reports anything different must be wrong.
Well we all can only report from our own experience. Sure color cast problem occurs in some z8 but majority of people dont have this problem so the one who dont have this problem suppose to say there is a problem for all z8? The response it must be the specific camera seems the most appropriate, no? For low light af, as much as younstruggle with it, other people, myself included just dont see it. You can look in my profile, the only time I won thread f the week was when I showed picture from my first time doing black water diving ( scuba diving at night hanging out in the middle of deep water with a few light source to attract the rarer critters). The condition was much much more challenging than your or Snapsy test condition using 60/2.8g macro and ftz adapter with z8 shooting at 0.3 to 1 m using f8 with small flashlight as focus light. I dont have a good explanation why you struggle but certainly my z8 af-c very reliably and I was shooting 2fps ( because my underwater strobe would not recycle much faster than that). Some people have similar experience that you do but it is across the boards. Many people also dont have similar experience at all. How do you want us who have no bad expperience like you say?
Re: Z8 extremely unreliable/inconsistent AF in mildly low light
SCoombs wrote:
I just thought of what seems to be a potential parallel here:
Over the past few months there were posts from people complaining that their Z8s were doing weird white balance things. Their photos all had weird color casts. Many users responded to them in the same way some people are responding about this AF thing: insisting that their camera doesn't do it and none of their peers' cameras do it and so therefore it must be a defective camera or user error. The people talking about the color casts had come looking for help and were being left to defend themselves against al l sorts of statements that they were the problem.
Then lo and behold firmware 2.01 came out and it had a fix for this color cast issue, and it turns out that the color cast happened to some Z8s but not all.
It's worth considering if your view is that there can't be variation in camera bodies or that your own experience of the camera working fine must mean everyone who reports anything different must be wrong.
Well we all can only report from our own experience. Sure color cast problem occurs in some z8 but majority of people dont have this problem so the one who dont have this problem suppose to say there is a problem for all z8. The response it must be the specific camera seems the most appropriate, no? For low light af, as much as younstruggle with it, other people, myself included just dont see it. You can look in my profile, the only time I won thread f the week was when I showed picture from my first time doing black water diving ( scuba diving at night hanging out in the middle of deep water with a few light source to attract the rarer critters). The condition was much much more challenging than your or Snapsy test condition using 60/2.8g macro and ftz adapter with z8 shooting at 0.3 to 1 m using f8 with small flashlight as focus light. I dont have a good explanation why you struggle but certainly my z8 af-c very reliably and I was shooting 2fps ( because my underwater strobe would not recycle much faster than that). Some people have similar experience that you do but it is across the boards. Many people also dont have similar experience at all. How do you want us who have no bad expperience like you say?
May 01, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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