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Z Design Does Aid in Lens Design
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<blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 697307" data-attributes="member: 43545"><p>I think we are just as the beginning of the refinement of the firmware to optimize AF performance. The hardware is there already, the speed of the processor and data buses suggests the only thing preventing the AF from matching or beating the D5 is further work on the software which apparently at the midpoint or less of the capabilities.</p><p>I have been using single point AF-S most of the time because it fits my subjects but last night went to a dim jazz supper club with the Z6 and only two lenses, 24-70 f/4, and f mount 85 1.8G. I wanted to experiment with tracking. The singer was a friend of mine and I brought 3 others for the performance and dinner. I tried Dynamic Area, Wide Area Small, Wide Area Large and last, Auto-Area with face tracking. All of them worked better than expected but Auto Area with face tracking on surprised me most in how good it was. She was not moving all over the stage but was rather active for a f/1.8 aperture shallow DOF. Just bringing the EVF to my eye and pressing AF-On locked onto her face wherever it was in the frame and stays on her. I shot 151 frames and only 2 were missed focus by an inch or more from the desired focal plane. We were on the second row of tables so to get enough reach I switched to Dx mode to get a field of view from the 85 mm as 127mm. She wanted a few photos for her web site/Instagram so I got a number of good shots for that purpose.</p><p>I was happy with the AF tracking so could not figure out how the Z cameras got a reputation of having poor AF. The more I use the Z6 the more I feel like selling the D850 and D800(might not get much for that due to age so would probably keep it) and get a Z7 for the studio/portrait or commercial work.</p><p>[ATTACH]309134[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spb_stan, post: 697307, member: 43545"] I think we are just as the beginning of the refinement of the firmware to optimize AF performance. The hardware is there already, the speed of the processor and data buses suggests the only thing preventing the AF from matching or beating the D5 is further work on the software which apparently at the midpoint or less of the capabilities. I have been using single point AF-S most of the time because it fits my subjects but last night went to a dim jazz supper club with the Z6 and only two lenses, 24-70 f/4, and f mount 85 1.8G. I wanted to experiment with tracking. The singer was a friend of mine and I brought 3 others for the performance and dinner. I tried Dynamic Area, Wide Area Small, Wide Area Large and last, Auto-Area with face tracking. All of them worked better than expected but Auto Area with face tracking on surprised me most in how good it was. She was not moving all over the stage but was rather active for a f/1.8 aperture shallow DOF. Just bringing the EVF to my eye and pressing AF-On locked onto her face wherever it was in the frame and stays on her. I shot 151 frames and only 2 were missed focus by an inch or more from the desired focal plane. We were on the second row of tables so to get enough reach I switched to Dx mode to get a field of view from the 85 mm as 127mm. She wanted a few photos for her web site/Instagram so I got a number of good shots for that purpose. I was happy with the AF tracking so could not figure out how the Z cameras got a reputation of having poor AF. The more I use the Z6 the more I feel like selling the D850 and D800(might not get much for that due to age so would probably keep it) and get a Z7 for the studio/portrait or commercial work. [ATTACH=CONFIG]309134._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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