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Hello, I’ve taken some pictures yesterday of my son running around in a large water fountain - the type where the water comes spouting out of the ground and kids have fun trying to avoid the bursts of the jets - but still getting very wet in the process
I was shooting in continuous mode and had my camera set as follows:
Autofocus. Continuous mode. Tracking/Wide. Face detection mode. Shutter priority set at 1/1000. Camera chose f4 as the appropriate aperture. ISO 400. I was shooting with my Fuji XT20 and 55-200mm 3.5 - 4.8 lens. At about 55mm focal length.
Now, some of my son’s faces are all blurry and I don’t know what the most likely cause is. Is it:
(a) an incontrovertible fact of life that an autofocus cannot handle this kind of situation and I need to get used to my camera’s/ any camera’s limits?
(b) the telephoto lens was the wrong choice of lens?
(c) if so which lens would have been handling this situation better? (Just as a FYI - I’ve also got the 18-55 and the 27mm Fuji’s) .
(d) is the XT20 not capable of dealing with this scenario but another camera might be? (I’m toying with getting the XT3 anyway, and if the consensus on this forum is that the XT3 would have given me pin point sharp images of my son laughing in the fountain I’m off buying one tomorrow!)
(e) any other user error?
Thank you in advance for your consideration. It’s one of these annoying moments when you think you’re going to come home with heaps of lovely pictures only to realise that on closer inspection they’re almost all soft and useless.
I was shooting in continuous mode and had my camera set as follows:
Autofocus. Continuous mode. Tracking/Wide. Face detection mode. Shutter priority set at 1/1000. Camera chose f4 as the appropriate aperture. ISO 400. I was shooting with my Fuji XT20 and 55-200mm 3.5 - 4.8 lens. At about 55mm focal length.
Now, some of my son’s faces are all blurry and I don’t know what the most likely cause is. Is it:
(a) an incontrovertible fact of life that an autofocus cannot handle this kind of situation and I need to get used to my camera’s/ any camera’s limits?
(b) the telephoto lens was the wrong choice of lens?
(c) if so which lens would have been handling this situation better? (Just as a FYI - I’ve also got the 18-55 and the 27mm Fuji’s) .
(d) is the XT20 not capable of dealing with this scenario but another camera might be? (I’m toying with getting the XT3 anyway, and if the consensus on this forum is that the XT3 would have given me pin point sharp images of my son laughing in the fountain I’m off buying one tomorrow!)
(e) any other user error?
Thank you in advance for your consideration. It’s one of these annoying moments when you think you’re going to come home with heaps of lovely pictures only to realise that on closer inspection they’re almost all soft and useless.