Leica SL3: How Does it Manage to Miss with Spot AF?
From a few weeks ago... how can a Spot AF function with a tiny extremely precise crosshair... miss?! The crosshair is on the leading edge of the railing, but the focus ends up in the far distance! Broken half-assed functionality like this really bothers me.
And the Leica SL3 makes it far worse with its “gridded” AF spots—a coarse grid that strictly controls where the precision spot can go, far more coarse than most camera. That’s grid AF, not spot AF, and it’s a bad joke. Short of recomposing, there is no way to better center that crosshair on the subject. Which makes a mockery of a Spot AF function. It is the worst by far in any camera I}ve used, but just one of nearly two dozen failings of the Leica SL3 vs Sony A7R V which make the SL3 the worst value on the market today along with the worst haptics on the market. The SL3 can’t get even the basics right, but they want twice the price. Seriously Leica?
Do you care? Maybe not. But Spot AF is all I use on all my cameras, so it matters a lot to me.
And BTW, while I did not test the focus tracking, a good friend who borrowed the SL3 for a weekend reports that it cannot begin to compete with the Sony A1 or Sony A7R V. If a camera can’t track well, and can’t do Spot AF properly, it’s a serious loser.
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