And sometime you have to do several time the test for being sure.īeing able to have clear responses when looking at the result is sometime better than doing test again to be sure.Īnd opening nikon software is a bad solution. When you should for fine tuning AF, the same (dslr) : you generally shoot 5 time the same correction, have to do it for a range of corrections, and for different distances this is very precise and takes time and when back to your screen having to compare them you sometime have some interrogations. When you come back from fast moving subjects shoots and see you have very fewer keepers than usual, this is a way to see if you did wrong or maybe your camera did wrong. When you shoot with razor sharp dof, you can often have doubts. Who cares where the focus point it can help when not being sure if AF is working well. Most of the time, looking at AF points is simply an exercise in mental torture, thousands of miles from where you took the shot and realising you got it wrong. I think it could be helpful for beginners or for owners of new cameras to get some confidence quicker. Sometimes the pattern was shown, but no rectangle was red = manual focus? So it’s also a check “AF did work/was not engaged”. If someone knows someone at Apple, ask them if Nikon didn’t provide them anymore or if the cameras didn’t write them into the RAWs anymore (ok, P900 doesn’t write RAWs).
Lateron in D750, D7100, P7800, P900: not always AF (and on some bodies not at all) points visible. It was also interesting to see, how big or small the AF points appeared: In D5100, it was only 9, but smaller than the D7000/7100 or D800/D810 with their 39 /50 something AF points which where so big that I sometime shad to ask myself “and where in this big rectangle is the focus measured now?” Even a Canon G11 did show AF points (or better: large rectangle fields) and also a cheap Lumix µ 4/3, but not Pentax.
As a digital beginner at that time, I found it very helpful when using 3D tracking to see where (in theory) the camera was focusing on. Well, back in the day Aperture did show the focus points of a couple of Nikons.
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