The Camera I ended up buying that checked all or most of the boxes for me in 2023

[hojomo]

Nor do I think your comment is useful even in the hypothetical sense that you used it of a clutch moment. For example, there is allegedly video of Alec Baldwin's finger on the trigger that he claims not to have pulled in the accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins. Would a green box on his eyeball have resulted in a more salient image capture of his trigger finger than a more general scene focus? I doubt it. I understand well the need to be rolling footage, and that an out of focus image is more important than a missed shot and that making the good shot with manual focus is not mutually exclusive in contrast to the impossibility that you imply. Maybe you can't.

this just makes me want to point out that we actually have the option of instant mf override on a lot of the best implemented AF systems :laugh:. So yeah; I would rather -- when I am shooting BTS & the gunman is on mark and I just got the clear to move in close enough to frame correctly; that the green box moves to the self-serving prick's face 1st -- so I can then decide to rack to his finger, as he absently mindedly-ends an innocent person's life...while trying to, with the least amount of effort possible personally; make a couple of bucks on the shoot of a movie he planned on forgetting about in a couple years.

 

[Peter C.]

I filmed a bhs dance party a couple of days ago. Zooming was unusable with distracting breathing as the camera pulsed reacquiring focus. Since I didn't need to zoom and it nailed focus in a dark low contrast setting allowing me to concentrate on what was important capturing unscripted moments. This won't be playing at a movie theater so I think I'm going to be ok.