The photo's that the x-Pro1 cant take...

I use focus an recompose most of the time (though I'm playing with the MF backbutton way of manual/af hybrid composing). When I've played with continuous, the center focus point being the only active really throws composition off *for me. The other settings work fine for me and I haven't had many problems.
 
macjim said:
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Looks like the page as been moved... Will try to figure out what happened...

I cut and pasted from inside my original rff posting my bad. did not think the info would disappear.

Gary
 
buzzardkid said:
. . . You seriously think an auto-everything camera is necessary to get good shots?

Ridiculous.


I bet there's people here who could get an equally good shot of that horse in action with a 4x5 plate camera.

It's got to do with pre-focusing, sufficient shutter speed and sufficient DOF from aperture. Any camera in manual mode can do that. In fact: anyone who wouldn't do that with something as predictable as kids in a merry-go-round (how low-skilled can you go) is rather thick...


You're assuming (and the poster is suggesting) that those shots were snapped instantly, on the spot, unpremeditated. etc. I'm not buying it. The sports shot was prefocused or the photographer was just a button-jockey.
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Huh? No one advocated auto-everything cameras.

I shoot a lot of basketball under difficult lighting conditions (with a DSLR, the best camera for sports photography). I set the exposure manually because the lighting is constant, but I do use AF. The action is way too fast to zone focus and wait - unless your goal is to walk out with only a few good images. But, hey, it reduces the amount of PP needed!

I have shot basketbal with a Mamiya 7, but I used studio lights and radio triggers so I could shoot at f/11. That did give me enough DOF for zone focus.
 
If ever these CMOS high end compacts figure out a way to give us focusing as good as the 5D, D700 etc brigade they will be seriously desirable tools!

In the meantime they get by with what they have ... but they are not a genuine alternative to a high end DSLR IMO and won't be until they make this leap.

Which is not to say they aren't a brilliant camera as they are.
 
I have the XP1 and an OM-D. Anyone who uses both for a morning shooting "action" will know why fast and accurate AF makes a difference, hyperfocal and pre-focus is not a substitute for good AF. Don't even mention good dslr focus like a 1Dwhatever.

The fuji AF is convenient compared to a MF camera, but it just can't compete with state of the art AF.
 
I'd be more impressed if they were "shots a 4x5 can't take", but even then, most of those images would have been possible with the proper technique.

Still, I understand the point of the blog. The narrative on the net about the *AWFUL* AF performance of the XP1 is so common that it can be mistake for truth, and worse, make inexperience photographers think that the only way to shoot is aiming and pressing the shutter, not pre-focusing, not hyperfocal focusing, no zone focusing.
 
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