On 17 May 2011 12:27, Scott Loveless <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilmx100/
>>
>> They were clearly exasperated with the combination of wonderful camera
>> and stupid flaws.
>
> They listed "No face detection AF system" as a Con. Is this really a
> selling point with serious photographers? Maybe I'm too far out of
> the loop, but I've always thought face detection was one of those
> "features" used to sell the camera to soccer moms. I wouldn't even
> think to ask if it had that. Not that I'm a serious photographer, but
> I think that many of those features are crammed in there in order to
> sell the camera with little consideration that they'll actually be
> used. Am I missing something? Are the reviewers at DPReview a bunch
> of buzz word slinging wankers? Am I the wanker?
Scott,
I don't know if you're the wanker, or even *a* wanker, and I don't
want to send you the questionnaire to find out, but I can answer your
question:
I am not a soccer mum and I love face detection.
Maybe I'm not a serious photographer, though :-) Here's why I love
it: As a street shooter, I'm photographing people most of the time; I
usually have a short time to get correct focus and I don't like AF'ing
with the center point then recomposing, so I end up using other AF
points with varying success. With face-detection on a contrast-detect
AF system I can compose my shot how I want it and the AF will focus on
the person's face, wherever it may be in the frame. Not only does this
give me more creative freedom when framing a shot (e.g., I can shoot
from the hip or above my head without seeing the screen and my
subject's face will be in focus), it also gives me more accurate
focusing (we all know the perils of focus-and-recompose at wide
apertures).
I admit that face-detect does sound like a gimmick, but I've found it
very useful on the cameras I've reviewed that had it. So much so that
when I had to return to shooting with my K10D or a mirrorless camera
without the gimmick/feature, I felt deprived.
Maybe *I* am the wanker because I can't be a man and shoot like HCB did :-)
Cheers,
—M.
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