12-20-2011, 11:35 AM
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.....that's an interesting vid, ta …. actually i saw something very similar to that vid looking at a friends 300s pix via his rear screen replay recently in Ca - he said he did the tracking by hand which i found, well, not too bad at all ;-) ….. in any case the v1 a/f looks good and i think that the 400(?) to come might also be very nice indeed.... whatever it is
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The difference is that you got arbitrary AF "points" on a mirrorless cam whereas you only have distinctive ones on a DSLR. On a DSLR you have to predict an object movement (the handover to an adjacent AF point) whereas you can "simply" follow it on a mirrorless cam. Additionally the mirrorless AF doesn't have to deal with the usual viewfinder blackout (except on the Sony SLTs). Nikon has also managed to overcome the phase-AF limitation with their new sensor design. So I think that AF is not an arguement anymore - at least when thinking of the Nikon implementation.
.....that's an interesting vid, ta …. actually i saw something very similar to that vid looking at a friends 300s pix via his rear screen replay recently in Ca - he said he did the tracking by hand which i found, well, not too bad at all ;-) ….. in any case the v1 a/f looks good and i think that the 400(?) to come might also be very nice indeed.... whatever it is
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The difference is that you got arbitrary AF "points" on a mirrorless cam whereas you only have distinctive ones on a DSLR. On a DSLR you have to predict an object movement (the handover to an adjacent AF point) whereas you can "simply" follow it on a mirrorless cam. Additionally the mirrorless AF doesn't have to deal with the usual viewfinder blackout (except on the Sony SLTs). Nikon has also managed to overcome the phase-AF limitation with their new sensor design. So I think that AF is not an arguement anymore - at least when thinking of the Nikon implementation.