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"Dpreviewers then say, well the Canon is so sophisticated that you can customize your subject tracking. Some even said that the Canon is faster provided you manual focus (!). This side-by-side tests angers them, having them accuse us of having hacked the 7DM2 to sabotage it, because I'm paid by Sony to slam Canon (I have never received a dollar from Sony - they have no control or give no suggestions as to the YouTubes I post), or that I don't know how to shoot, despite my being a professional photographer for over 30 years. (That accusation came from a photographer who confessed that he was not a professional, but shot a "ton" of paid gigs). "
"My response is; simpler is sophisticated. Dpreviewers point to many different scanned pages from the manual, saying this or that setting was wrong. At first they said we locked on the snow. When I showed the sequence showing the Canon abandoning the first skier, then the theory came to that we chose the wrong focus case or locking during AI-Servo. First they said we should have used Case 4. Until I shared that I used Case 4, and then it became, "Case 4 was the wrong choice!". Then the target became Canon EOS-Itr (intelligent tracking) which detects faces by color recognition. The reason iTR didn't work in this case, is because the skiers did not wear colors! (I kid you not, that was one of the excuses)"
"The bottom line is this. It's simple. You have a skier coming down the hill. You want to get an action sequence. Point two cameras at the same skier. One camera costs triple as much, requires extensive training by extensive review of the manual (which is poorly written) in order to shoot a published up to 10fps. Or you could pay 1/3 the cost for a camera that is published as the fastest autofocus in the world, and simply point it at the skier you want, and it tracks and nails the subject throughout the entire time."
#canonrekt
