[Leica] Dolphin Dance

[Adam Bridge]

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!