Phyl said:
). So which should camera choose? The person 10' away or mountains 10 miles away? Or what if the fish you want to take pics of is moving around, back and forth in the tank? What they claim is that they have created a nice piece of AI software that analyses the overall image, determines some patterns in it (image contains faces, or people, or moving objects), and using same rules gives the priority to some focal points. So, for example, the algorithm is supposed to be able to figure out if any of the focal points lies on a subjects face gives the priority to that focal point, even though every other point has nicely measured the distant mountain in the background. What THEY also claim, is that once the algorithm acquires a target it can track it in 3D (sounds like a cruise missile ;D ). What that means is that if it moves form one focal point to another they can both have the priorities. It also means, that if theobject is moving towards and away from the camera, that movement can be determined and anticipated so that autofocus will automatically adjustthe the lenses to continuously keep the subject in focus (case of your fish moving around your tank). Coooool 