the "willy waving" thread suggest there's a few S10 owners here, possibly looking at a T5 upgrade. Are there people here that's made the jump and have feedback?
I've had a S10 for a bit over a year, as my 1st decent digital camera away from a phone - mainly for family photos and record my 6 year old grow up. When the images are crisp and well focussed they're great and I can soon justify the cost compared with my phone, but I find the hit-rate of well-focussed images way below what I get from my phone. I keep thinking it's to do with the processing/AI in a modern phone. I feel it's mainly the quick "capture the moment" snaps that are the worst, where I just want to raise the camera and snap, or my kids running about the place and the AF is trying to keep up - if I've got a few seconds I can mess about with AF settings like spot vs zone and check it's crisp on the intended subject. I've played with all manner of options and AF-C settings, watching many YT guides, using higher F-stops than I would typically want just to widen the depth of field and allow for more focal-range, etc. but I still find quick moments are still a gamble - this weekend I took my daughter to pony riding, and it kept wanting to focus on the horse's mane instead of her, even when the zone frame was predominantly on the rider and it refused to track her face, presumably due to the helmet, etc. so the more "action" shots are more of the animal and not her - but the "posed" shots are great. I also recently went to a RSBP place and tried to capture what I could with my longest lens (only 230mm) and it struggled to get crisp birds in flight, no matter what I did.
Realistically, is the T5/T50 gen any better? I read comments about AF improvements, but are they actually there? Or, is it a case of either practising more, or just burst mode and accept many images will be rubbish?
I keep wondering about the T5 (compared with the t50) as I rarely use the film-sims, so that top-dial on the t50 doesn't appeal and the weatherproofing of the T5 should make it more real-world usable. But, is it just a case that the AF isn't really much better (or that the improvements of the AF are outweighed by the 40MP sensor reducing the leeway)?
This may not help but the problem I find pointing and shooting with my X-T30 II is it seems to have a thing for 1/60s in all but very well lit conditions and even at a wide aperture. From my experience I never get sharp portraits of subjects that aren't completely still unless I’m at least at 1/125s. The camera actually has a minimum shutter speed setting but then ignores it if there’s not enough light thus making it an utterly useless feature.
If I have time to manually configure the shutter and aperture then I find the focusing to be very good. It is leagues ahead compared my old X-T20 so I imagine the 50 is better still.