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R6: 93% (green) at 20fps – 18 / 20 images in focus.

With all that said, there are times when the Drive Score matters most, and that is when the AF performance is very similar between cameras.

At the fastest rate, not every camera gives you live view in the EVF, which means there is a lag to consider and that can throw you off guard (resulting in a poorer score until you get used to it).

The continuous shooting speed you select in the menu and the actual speed the camera uses are not always exactly the same, and some settings can slow it down too (for example the X-T3 speed decreases when using Focus Priority, but the latter is an important setting to improve the AF rate).

For example, the X-T3 won’t manage 2 seconds at 20fps (with RAW), so if the action lasts 4 seconds, the A7 IV will give you more images in focus.

Some cameras may have more fps but the buffer might be limited.

The camera with the better AF has a higher chance of giving you good images where the action is at its most crucial (for example when a bird is grabbing a fish in the water).

There are no settings that let you control where the out of focus images will end up in a sequence.

The A7 IV may have a slower drive speed, but its autofocus is more realiable in every situation, whereas the X-T3 will struggle at times. Personally, I think the AF score gives you a more realistic representation of how much the camera can be trusted. Considering that wildlife is often about capturing difficult moments that may not happen again, many photographers will prefer to have more images on the SD card and that is a fair assessment. X-T3: 72% (green) at 20fps – 14 / 20 images in focusĭespite the lower score, the X-T3 gives you more images in focus per second.A7 IV: 94% (green) at 10fps – 9 / 10 images in focus.It depends on how much of a difference there is between the cameras. Which score should you give more importance to?

He rightfully argued that, even if a camera had an inferior AF score, it might still give you a higher number of good images per second because the drive speed is faster. The Drive Score was added later, following the suggestion of our reader Speeding in the comments. To keep things simple, the Drive Score only takes into account the green percentage. The Drive Score shows the hit rate I got with the fastest continuous shooting speed available on the camera, as well as the number of ‘keepers’ (images in focus) in a 1 second burst. For example, if a model can work at 20fps, but the keeper rate is better at 10fps, the AF Score will reflect the performance at 10fps. It prioritises the autofocus performance rather than the fastest burst rate the camera can produce. The AF Score represents the best keeper rate I got with a precise list of settings and a specific drive speed. We can also argue that an image may look good even if focus is only 90% accurate, and might still be usable in limited form if the action or the light captured is really beautiful. Making this differentiation allows me to better understand how the camera performs and what the potential improvements could be. When I started testing mirrorless cameras, I noticed that slightly soft results were more common than completely out of focus images, as opposed to DSLRs.

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If you can be patient, it shouldn't be too long before the update is rolled out globally.You may wonder why I bother with the blue score at all, and that is a legitimate question.

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The Canon firmware update for the two full-frame mirrorless cameras is available to download in some regions already – Canon websites for Australia, Japan, Mexico and France have links for download – although, at the time of writing, Canon UK and Canon USA had still not released the firmware. We haven't tested the new firmware yet, and we're unsure whether it can beat Sony's topnotch AF performance, but we're sure this will put Canon on par with the eye detect AF on the Nikon Z7 and Z6 that was rolled out as a firmware update in May. So that would be in the review pane on the rear LCD, in case anyone missed earlier. In the case of the EOS R, a bug that saw the AF frame size remain static in Servo AF mode has now been fixed, and users should now be able to change the AF frame from small to 'normal', depending on the situation.Īn EOS RP-specific update on version 1.3.0 sees a fix for 'a phenomenon in which the main dial icon is not displayed when pressing the zoom in/out button while the image is playing'.

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The above video, although shared publicly back in August, demonstrates how the AF system on the Canon full-frame mirrorless cameras have improved, and that is when the software was still being developed.

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