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Subject: [Leica] Dolphin Dance
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:27:05 -0700
References: <CAH1UNJ15wJJ5Bx8d_wh2LiCyS=9uQYkKi+YijywVLa9nPNY_FQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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