Joey Wilson
Regular
WHAT IF . . . . . you could gang the manual focus to a ring on the lens (as we're all used to), it worked as fast as you turned that ring, instead of the manual focus Fuji runs at present where you have to turn the control ring on the back (which seems as slow as turning the combination dial on a safe !). This would be a lot easier re-do for Fuji, could easily be assigned on a future cam with software command. I would not think a new manual focus camera is on their short list, but what the hey, who ever figured they would launch the XCams?
As you turn this ring, you put the cross indicator on the target, and it turns green when you've got it. Would not be the traditional 'combining images' of a mechanical rangefinder, but it would work as well. 'Match-needle' focus, if you will. I would think this could also be made to work in both modes of the visual / EVF window of the 100 and XP1 type cameras.
One thing Fuji could do to help me AF-wise in a future software update? I usually run my X10 at Auto800 ISO, and invariably the camera wants to default to the understandable combinations of higher shutter / bigger apertures. Of course on the X10 this gets me lots of f2's and f2.8's, where the DOF is pretty thin. I'll get the hang of aiming more precisely and jiggling the ISO's to favor smaller f-stops, but that's not always do-able. So if they could shift the bias to smaller f's and slower shutters (not a real problem with short focal lengths in a stabilized, lightweight camera), I wouldn't complain.
All the Best,
Joey Wilson
As you turn this ring, you put the cross indicator on the target, and it turns green when you've got it. Would not be the traditional 'combining images' of a mechanical rangefinder, but it would work as well. 'Match-needle' focus, if you will. I would think this could also be made to work in both modes of the visual / EVF window of the 100 and XP1 type cameras.
One thing Fuji could do to help me AF-wise in a future software update? I usually run my X10 at Auto800 ISO, and invariably the camera wants to default to the understandable combinations of higher shutter / bigger apertures. Of course on the X10 this gets me lots of f2's and f2.8's, where the DOF is pretty thin. I'll get the hang of aiming more precisely and jiggling the ISO's to favor smaller f-stops, but that's not always do-able. So if they could shift the bias to smaller f's and slower shutters (not a real problem with short focal lengths in a stabilized, lightweight camera), I wouldn't complain.
All the Best,
Joey Wilson