Weekend thoughts.
There are a lot of differences between Fujifilm and Sony, and I believe each company could learn some things something from each other.
But today I’d like to focus on one aspect, that I believe Sony and other brand are doing right, and Fujifilm should copy.
Let’s talk about it.
Italian photographer Roberto owned Fujifilm X series gear, but at some point followed the siren songs of full frame Sony.
Now, after using Sony for a while, he switched back to Fujifilm.
In his (Italian) video he explains why.
But don’t worry, you are lucky that FujiRumors is a polyglot (I speak 4 languages), so I am going to translate it for you ;).
Hidema shared a follow up to his this eye AF comparison between the following cameras:
In his original post, we critiqued the fact that he used the slower focusing XF 35mm f/1.4 lens.
So, Hidema listened, and, as spotted by our friends at CanonWatch, they now shared a follow up video, re-testing the eye AF.
Hidema writes he used “all camera default settings, except eye-AF on“.
This would mean that high performance mode (or boost mode) was OFF, hence the slower autofocus.
Today I talked to Hidema, and he was not sure about boost mode. So he contacted the Fujifilm employee, who helped him to perform this test, and apparently he has been told that boost mode was ON.
One more, important, thing:
Fujifilm has just announced they will release two firmware updates in December and January for Fujifilm X-T3.
The new firmware will bring these 3 significant autofocus improvements, and I expect the results to improve significantly.
Hidema made 6 different tests.
For your convenience, I have extracted practical screenshots of the results fo the 6 different tests as well as the average results and the time the cameras needed to reacquire focus after the subject returned into the frame.
OVERALL RESULTS
For the full results one by one, check out the screenshots and the video below.
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Here is an Eye-AF comparison video between the Fujifilm X-T3, Nikon Z6, Canon EOS R and Sony A9.
It looks like they used the slower Fujinon XF35mm f/1.4 for this test, and it is also kind of pointless to discuss the Fujifilm X-T3 eye-AF at this stage, since a major improvement is coming via firmware in April, and the first reports are very promising.
So, in a few weeks, this test will already be obsolete and outdated, and we hope they will repeat the test again.
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It looks like Sony raised the bar once again, when it comes to eye-AF and AF-tracking.
Tony Northrup compared the eye-AF of the brand new Sony A6400, with the one of the Fujifilm X-T3, Sony A6500, Sony A9 and Sony A7rIII. He moved very harshly and pushed the magic eye-AF algorithms of the different cameras to their limits. Here are his results.
Sony’s eye-AF also works from more distance to the subject than Fuji’s.
So, Fuji, time to work on the next Kaizen firmware update to catch up ;) .
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