>>3405785Is it confirmed that Panasonic's camera won't have PDAF?
The combination of CD+PDAF on cameras that have it works very well, maybe not D5 tier but then none of those cameras are in the same market cost-wise.
>>3405791The key difference between types of AF is that phase detection on a DSLR will give you the approximate focusing error and direction from a single reading by computing the correlation between the left and right part of its linear sensor, while contrast detection needs to actually start moving the lens in some direction, take several contrast readings and determine the trend. The most basic CDAF just moves the lens until it finds that contrast has peaked and is now decreasing, and then backtracks a little bit back to the peak; Panasonic's DFD presumably can predict the peak earlier. However, no CDAF can do anything without moving the lens first, no matter how deep learning your AI is.
