Panasonic User Tries Sony AF for the First Time 

Hey y’all! I appreciate your feedback as I’ve been getting a lot of “rebuttles” about the AF… I understand I should have done a better job of representing more extensively my AF tests, there is also so much to display that it’s hard for me to always pick what I should be spending time on, but ultimately I tried it in a few different AF modes and still wasn’t finding myself completely satisfied as you see in this review. Yes, I am sure I could learn more about the A1 and focusing better, but the point in my perspective of having a fantastic AF hyped up as much as the A1 was is so that you wouldn’t have to jump through so many hoops, otherwise we are just back to where we started with having to micromanage our autofocusing like we have for years. Someday (not yet) we won’t have to micromanage our AF and we can rely on it in any situation. This Sony A1 wasn’t that solution yet. Again, in more scenarios then I would have preferred, manually focusing with the techniques I’ve developed would have been quicker than having to joystick spot the subject, select the subject to track by pulling back from the viewfinder to look at the LCD screen, or hunt through different focus ranges in order to get the camera in the right spot, so it just wasn’t as good as I’d like. You can agree, or disagree with my statements, but that’s what I believe a “good AF” should be when it’s hyped up as much as it is. And please don’t forget, I did say that it was the best I’ve used, just still not what I’ve hoped for… so no need to get defensive :) Thanks for the consideration!

You can tap to track focus on subjects in videos dude. It works very well.

Manual focus can be easily altered with autofocus if the setting is changed

IF your settings are correct, the a1 will be way better than video af than Panasonic. You can have a bird fly behind a tree or group of trees and the a1 will stay locked on the bird. IF, your settings are correct.

the onlg auto focus I need is on your content

I have been eyeballing it too but I can not get over the price of it... it makes me nervous for the Canon R1 and how much it is going to cost. I will be waiting for the R5 mkII for my next upgrade. I wonder how it compares to canons autofocus?