old-gregg wrote:
Are you saying you're the only one on FM who pixel peeps?
On a serious note, all of you are exaggerating for some reason.
1. Not losing a single shot due to AF in 8 years is... unrealistic. In fact, it's unrealistic with any brand.
2. Claiming that Fuji cameras can't AF-S on static subjects reliably is also an absurd exaggeration.
Source: me. The ultimate authority. Lots of Fuji bodies, lenses and years under the belt with thousands of "keeper" images. Yes, it's AF system is weaker than the competition, but is and has always been perfectly usable in AF-S mode, especially against the historical contemporaries. For example, the oldie X-T3 focused better than the Canon 5D Mk2 and Mk4. At the time they were considered solid performers in that regard.
Why ruin the conversation with grandiose claims, over-generalizations, over-extrapolations from your own limited experience? There's always nuance and unknowns in everything. For example, some Fuji lenses are known to have poor focusing accuracy due to their unit-focus design. This means high glass mass to move, requiring stronger but less precise motors. This was the intentional design trade-off favoring the resulting OOF rendering, appreciated by many. Want high-precision focus? Don't buy those!
I'm interested in the Fuji X 100-400, some kind of normal zoom to meet up with that range and an ultrawide zoom. We might try that 150-600 for special purpose though it is stupidly slow.
I don't use lenses with the borkahs nor have any idea about what Fujis are unit focusing other than assuming short primes. The system will not be used for human species. The fastest aperture lens I could imagine using would be f/2.8 but mostly f/4-7.1. Normally I use the continuous AF, but I'm not sure if the AF-C with BBF is at last as good as AF-S for landscapes where it will be on a tripod. With modern Sony and Canon I usually just leave it at AF-C because there is little to no difference once I know it is in focus.
The 5D II AF was an archaic small diamond pattern, mainly designed to differentiate it from the 1Ds III. IME it was one of the worst of the line. Subsequently the 5D III and 1Dx were far better.
EBH
Apr 25, 2026 at 01:22 PM
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