Issue with Canon Autofocus?

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"David P. Summers" <drscience3000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Look, if you think it is OK to attack posts you don't like as trolls (as
> you seem to feel above), at least be honest an admit it (and if you feel
> embarassed then maybe reexamine your bahavior).

How could you know whether I liked your post or not when your post had
nothing to like or dislike about it? It completely lacked anything relevant
to your question. The reason I was terse in my original reply was because I
didn't want to spend any more time writing my reply than the very little
time you spent researching suspected autofocus problems with the Rebel XT.

> But also trying to
> pretend you were being helpful just doesn't fly. I leaned something
> real from this thread, but not from anything you said.
>

You learned that a Rebel XT isn't a 10D?

> I any case, I have no more time to deal with immaturity on the net. I
> have nothing more to say....

You should be more aware of your own immaturity.

Greg

 

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David P. Summers wrote:
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> Brian Baird wrote:
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>> In article <42FA9F27.1080904@yahoo.com>, drscience3000@yahoo.com says...
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>>> I like the 8 Mpixels feature, but I'm thinking of going with the
>>> Nikon (what is the different between the D50 and the D70?), if only
>>> because I'm afraid I will be overly critical of the focus if I get
>>> the Canon.
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>> I've seen some Nikon measurebators that were just as bad as the Canon
>> ones.
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>> In any case, get the camera that fits you, and for the love of god,
>> don't measurebate! You'll go blind.
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> Measurebate?

It must be related to "pixel peeping", ie being _extremely_ finicky
about one particular facet of (in this case, digital) digital SLR
cameras and losing the context of whether the camera can do the job
asked of it.

 

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dj_nme wrote:
>> Measurebate?
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> It must be related to "pixel peeping", ie being _extremely_ finicky
> about one particular facet of (in this case, digital) digital SLR
> cameras and losing the context of whether the camera can do the job
> asked of it.

Brian Baird wrote:


> Measurebate?
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> Measureabate: v. to ceaselessly test your camera in a manner that will
> never reflect its real world performance or capabilities.
> --

Ah.

Unfortunately, when I get worried about something I tend to focus in on
it so I can see myself doing something like this without thinking. That
is something I'm considering, whether I might be overcritical of my
focus if I get a Canon, even if it is unfair....

 

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"David P. Summers" <drscience3000@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
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> dj_nme wrote:
>>> Measurebate?
>>
>>
>> It must be related to "pixel peeping", ie being _extremely_ finicky about
>> one particular facet of (in this case, digital) digital SLR cameras and
>> losing the context of whether the camera can do the job asked of it.
>
> Brian Baird wrote:
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>> Measurebate?
>>
>>
>> Measureabate: v. to ceaselessly test your camera in a manner that will
>> never reflect its real world performance or capabilities.
>> --
>
> Ah.
>
> Unfortunately, when I get worried about something I tend to focus in on it
> so I can see myself doing something like this without thinking. That is
> something I'm considering, whether I might be overcritical of my focus if
> I get a Canon, even if it is unfair....
>

So, get a Kalachnikoff, the AF is 100% accurate, and forget Canon.

 

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David P. Summers wrote:

>> Here's a site which discusses the 10D "problem" in detail, you'll
>> probably find it interesting. As mentioned earlier, the Rebel XT model
>> you are looking at doesn't have this problem (neither did most of the
>> 10D's, but some did).
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>> http/www.photo.net/learn/focustest/
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> Yeah, I'm clearer on the 10D issue.
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> I've been looking around and all the professional reviewers I've seen
> think the autofocus is good. OTOH, there is a small, but persistent
> trickle of user complaining about it. That doesn't seem to be true of
> the Nikon. Is it a symptom of problem with some cameras? Is it simply
> that there are more Canons out there (and so more users to complain)? Is
> it that the autofocus works OK, but is harder to use well? I don't know.


It could be any of those things. It could also simply be the nature of
the autofocus algorithms at work behind the scenes. There isn't an
industry standard for autofocus; each camera manufacturer has their own
proprietary method for determining when a camera has an image in focus.
There could be a segment of the population that simply finds Canon's
focusing program to be disagreeable with their tastes.


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Isaiah Beard wrote:
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> David P. Summers wrote:
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> >> Here's a site which discusses the 10D "problem" in detail, you'll
> >> probably find it interesting. As mentioned earlier, the Rebel XT model
> >> you are looking at doesn't have this problem (neither did most of the
> >> 10D's, but some did).
> >>
> >> http/www.photo.net/learn/focustest/
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I'm clearer on the 10D issue.
> >
> > I've been looking around and all the professional reviewers I've seen
> > think the autofocus is good. OTOH, there is a small, but persistent
> > trickle of user complaining about it. That doesn't seem to be true of
> > the Nikon. Is it a symptom of problem with some cameras? Is it simply
> > that there are more Canons out there (and so more users to complain)? Is
> > it that the autofocus works OK, but is harder to use well? I don't know.
>
> It could be any of those things. It could also simply be the nature of
> the autofocus algorithms at work behind the scenes. There isn't an
> industry standard for autofocus; each camera manufacturer has their own
> proprietary method for determining when a camera has an image in focus.
> There could be a segment of the population that simply finds Canon's
> focusing program to be disagreeable with their tastes.
>
Not everyone is able to handle a camera properly. We assume that the
complaints come from users who know what they're doing, but I wonder
sometimes. When you see that some people can't even frame a shot
correctly, god knows where the focus point(s) was/were looking when they
hit the trigger. Or they take a shot of a couple of persons and fail to
see that no focus point is on either person. Given that Canon dslr's
rule the lower segment of the market at least, some of them must be
owned by idiots.

Colin D.