I'm glad that Blackmagic has not invested millions in developing auto focus with a line of proprietary lenses that might not deliver what we want.
u/IntelligentSignature wrote:
"…TLDR: I'm missing focus on lots of shots. Am I doing something wrong or do I have unrealistic expectations. Or is the AF still not good on lumix cameras and I made a bad decision and should return it.
First of all I would like to preface this by saying that I have very little experience with Mirrorless cameras so I might be doing something wrong or I might have unrealistic expectations. So I just got lumix S5 II and sigma 24-70. But I'm continuously missing focus on moving objects. I noticed this when I tried to photograph people on bikes, mind you these were people on bicycles and motorbikes which are just starting from intersection, so no motorsport thingy. These were my settings Aperture priority, human detection on, and custom AF mode set to 3( which is supposedly good for things moving with unpredictable speed). I posted about this on r/lumix as well but I didn't get a good response apart from someone suggesting s5 II is not a sports camera, and to check if I was on C-AF. These were multiple quick bursts throughout the day so I can't be sure if it was indeed C-AF. So to make sure I again checked all my settings and kept my camera on C-AF all the time but I didn't quite get a similar opportunity but today when I was out and casually taking some photos I realized this is happening for people just moving around as well. I also switched my settings to default AF mode kept C-AF on and started testing again. This time I'm pretty sure I was on C-aF. In the attached images the green box shows where the camera focussed, some of these are in slightly dark conditions but to my understanding the subjects had enough light.
My question is, is this common for all cameras or I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm doing or lumix s5ii is missing focus for some reason. Some of these shots subjects weren't even moving. None of these are in burst mode.
…No tap to focus these were all on full area mode."
- lumix S5 II and sigma 24-70
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- lumix S5 II and sigma 24-70
- LumixS5IISigma24_70A.png (727.32 KiB) Viewed 23828 times
r/Cameras Is this normal or should I return lumix s5 IIhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Cameras/commen ... mix_s5_ii/