[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Adam,
I know the X system very well, having used it since the initial launch of
the X-Pro1, through X-E1, X-T1, X100s to the X-T2 at present. The way I
managed here is to take a barrage of photographs to fill up the extremely
limited buffer, hoping a few were OK, waiting for the buffer to empty, and
then letting go with another barrage. The X-T2 lets me take 25 RAW shots
before the buffer chokes, while a Nikon D500 lets me take 200 RAW shots,
with far, far superior focus acquisition and tracking. The X-T2 is not a
patch on the Nikon D500 for wildlife/birds, and I do not want to spend $$$$
buying a slow telephoto zoom with limited use. IMHO, mirrorless has some
way to go yet to catch up with DSLRs for action photography, despite all
the hype and hoopla surrounding it at present. I am sticking with my Nikon
kit for the foreseeable future!

Cheers
Jayanand



On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
>
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