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<p>With practice, it becomes second nature to use the thumb to control focus with AF-ON (at least on my D300), and the index finger on the shutter release, it is not really much different from doing the half-press to focus, and then the full-press to trigger the shutter. Using the AF-ON button and setting the AF mode to AF-C, gives you instantaneous control over AF-C, AF-S or AF-M without using any other button except the AF-ON. If you don't press the AF-ON, no change in focus, or you can use manual focus on the lens. If you press AF-ON and release, you get AF-S. If you keep AF-ON pressed, you get AF-C. You don't have to worry whether you accidentally let the half-press go, particularly when you want to reselect what your exposure was also based on. It is great to have exposure and focus decoupled. <br> <br />I too am from the old MF days, and if there is sufficient DoF, I too fallback to focus and recompose as my preferred method, since it saves having to twiddle with moving the focus point around. It works just fine with the AF-ON button.</p> <p>As others have said, AF-C and subject tracking is exactly the same whether you use the half-shutter press or the AF-ON button to engage the AF system. The difference is that the AF-ON button puts you in control of when the AF system is engaged, whereas with the half-press you have no choice but to engage the AF system before the shutter activates unless ou have set a second button to choose manual focus.</p>

<p>Not baby bugs, but just babies...kiddoes from our camping trip with a bunch of friends during Memorial Day weekend at Lake Ray Roberts here in North Texas.</p><div></div>

<p>Lex, sorry to have misled you, I only posted the video for some mindless fun, not to support his take on the X-Pro1. I just happened to find the link to this video from a site that aggregates Fuji X posts on the net and I liked the goofiness. I was not intending to add on to the poking fun at southerners either, I am a Texas Aggie, by the way, and have lived in Texas for over 30 years, to tout my southern/southwestern credentials. I am just waiting for another round of sales to come around to grab a Fuji X-E2 and some XF lenses. In general, though this video might be trying to be satirical about X-Pro1 negatives, I think we sometimes do go overboard on deriding cameras that lack the absolute fastest autofocus, or the frames per second, and certainly the ability to take photos in near darkness.</p> <p>OK, so for the counter argument for the Fuji X-Pro1: http://photosfujiscanttake.tumblr.com/</p>

<p>I thought I'd start yall's weekend off on the raaht fuot, with this wonderful review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDlyoT75YaM. Enjoy :-)</p> <p>At some point he tells people to slow their minds down. I am listening!</p>