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I've had several alphas in the last decade from Leica, Swarovski and Zeiss and IMO I don't like the trend towards faster focus. Why? Because it harder to zoom to a specific setting. I tend to overshoot a bit and then go back. When the focus is slow or slower, it's easier to dial in precisely to the value you want.
I do understand the rationale for fast focus, you are watching moving objects and need to rapidly adjust the focus. However in my experience that has rarely happened. Almost never in fact. Even with moving objects, once you dial in to a setting, they tend to stay in that range with very little need for adjustment.
The other stupid, IMO, trend is close focus. I don't care to see fleas on a butterfly 10 feet away. I do want higher values for diopter value at infinity being severely myopic.
I do understand the rationale for fast focus, you are watching moving objects and need to rapidly adjust the focus. However in my experience that has rarely happened. Almost never in fact. Even with moving objects, once you dial in to a setting, they tend to stay in that range with very little need for adjustment.
The other stupid, IMO, trend is close focus. I don't care to see fleas on a butterfly 10 feet away. I do want higher values for diopter value at infinity being severely myopic.