Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are a wealth of settings on the X-T2 that interact with the continuous focus. I found (somewhere) a recommended set that seemed to work quite well for me. Another friend took his X-T2 shooting birds and sea otters and got very good results - on the order of 80% of his images were in-focus - not bad for white birds against the sky. So it?s worth experimenting. Adam > On 2017 Aug 11, at 8:01 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Wildlife wise, the best encounter of our Canada trip was with a large pod > of playful feeding Pacific White-sided Dolphin at the waters around > Campbell River in British Columbia. They were great to see, and I spent a > lot of time taking a break from photography, just looking at them > frolicking. This trip I had decided to borrow Howard Cummer's Fuji 100-400, > and stick with a Fuji X-T2 for the whole trip, not taking my Nikon > equipment at all, so that I could evaluate the mirrorless kit for action > sequences. It was a decision I came to regret quite early on - I was > getting around 10% of focused images, on High Speed tracking mode, compared > to my normal hit rate of around 80% with the Nikon kit. In other words, a > no contest for action sequences, though as you would expect, it was > perfectly fine for static shots. Mirrorless still has some way to go, on > both focus acquisition and tracking in high speed mode, and I am not going > to repeat the experiment anytime soon! Here are some dolphin captures, > then, and they are all different ones!