X-Pro2 FW2.00 AF-C / L & AE Test (Release Priority)

[adzman808]

Yes I know many of you hate cat pics, but eff it... she's a metering nightmare and she moves & IIRC Fuji cited the improved AF algorithm helped with fur and fine texture 

 

And just to make it REALLY challenging....

 

XF60 @ F2.4 :D set to single focus point mode

 

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Shot#1 in focus.

 

Shots 2, 3 ,4 are NOT in focus. 5 - 8 in focus

 

 

 

All shots in focus

 

 

 

All shots in focus (shallow DOF excepted for closing ups)

 

 

 

All shots in focus (shallow DOF excepted for closing ups) - metering gets 'confused' (sic) when black cat fills the frame, and it's a blue cloudless sky out there today!

 

Summary:

 

All in all I'm happy with that... (YMMV) 3 missed shots out of 25, using the 60 and F2.4 and AE worked pretty well to cover the DR of the scene

 

Thanks Fuji

Edited October 6, 2016 by adzman808

[jhjl]

Nice cat and good to know the autofocus works for this most important use case. A good reason to use the Sunny F16 rule

[adzman808]

Nice cat and good to know the autofocus works for this most important use case. A good reason to use the Sunny F16 rule

 

A man's gotta work with the tools at hand, my kid was at school !!

 

The sunny 16 rule would've given the test a bit of skew.. ergo the slowest lens, with a shallow DOF

 

The be fair I think it's the AF-C AE that's the star here, remember it couldn't do that before

[voodooless]

Why not do a test with the old firmware first? Now you can hardly compare it, except for a feeling that you might have on how much better it works.

[adzman808]

Why not do a test with the old firmware first? Now you can hardly compare it, except for a feeling that you might have on how much better it works.

 

because AF-C + AE is a new feature with this update