I shoot sports and wildlife all the time with my Fuji X-T5. It’s paired with Fuji’s XF70-300mm. I get lots of compliments on my photos.

My default is I use continuous focus with a tiny square. Also, I have a function button that toggles face detect on and off. Face detect works great if I have a single person in the frame. But often I have multiple faces in frame, in which case I toggle face detect off and shoot “old school” autofocus using a very small focus square.

I’m sure Sony, Canon, and Nikon have better autofocus tracking, but Fuji’s autofocus works well enough. I much prefer Fuji’s color science and user experience. I’ve gotten used to its minor autofocus idiosyncrasies, and I don’t find it to be a major problem. I think the problem is overblown on the internet, especially with Fuji’s newer camera models.

This video needs to be bumped up. I scrolled quite a bit down to find it but it definitely seems like the most honest review

Excellent presentation. I have an xt5 which I am very happy with.  I would say that the weakness in auto focus is limited to AFC; I have very good autofocus when in AFS.

I have an X-H2S. Like you mentioned, AF was a problem with some of their updates. That was fixed in 7.10.  I use mine for sports with very few problems.

Speaking as a long-term Fuji owner, from XE2, pro2, XT4, XT5. The XT4 was the worst auto focus camera ever for me. Even my pro2 was better.
Then I upgraded all my lenses to linear motors, and it was better, but still not good enough. After two repairs, I replaced it with an XT5. I got much better results, despite the bad
Firmware upgrade that messed things up for a while.
I do a lot of street photography, so I need to have the focus working or I get blurred shots. I still get blurred shots, but a lot less now that I own, the XT5.
The bad shots are usually people moving or the contrast is muddy or reflective. Other than that, I’m happy. 🖖

Hi Peter, thanks for a thoughtful, constructive and well presented video. I also have an X-H2 and currently my experience is much like yours.

Agree. I have XH2 + Sigma 100-400 and it works fine for birds. I have watched many videos on Youtube comparing fuji AF with Canon, Sony & Nikon. Yes Fuji may be a bit behind, but only by a small margin. If I remember correctly Sony/Canon have 92-95% keepers vs Fuji's 85% according to these videos (Comparing Canon R5 & Sony A9 to Fuji XT5). But what you pay for the extra AF accuracy on Canon/Sony can only be justified for pro work. I am happy with 85% accuracy on my XH2 (just delete the 15% out of focus shots).

I have the X-H2 and a Fujinon 150-600mm lens. I'm very happy with it. The autofocus works well in most situations. That said, I'll also say that hardware with that potential is poorly implemented and underutilized. The firmware and the artificial intelligence it uses are disappointing for what it could be. That's a fact. Denying it is pointless. As soon as there are four branches behind the bird, it struggles to find or track it, or it mistakes it for trees, branches... it fails. That's just how it is. In fast flight, it gives you a green box and shows it in focus at the time, but when you transfer the footage to the computer, it's "upside down" (the bird is out of focus and the background is in focus). This hasn't happened to me once, twice, or three times; it's happened many times in the two years I've had it. Is it usable? Yes. Am I happy with it? Yes. And I'll also say that the hardware is capable of much more than what Fujifilm is offering us, and we should demand it.

One thing that was a major improvement for the X-T5 was downgrading its firmware from version 4-something (I forget) to 2.10. Not only the AF came back to quasi-normal but also the image quality improved. In version 4 the JPEGs would frequently look a bit lower contrast than expected. My guess is someone at Fuji decided to radically change the AF algorithm, perhaps using some half-baked AI technology, and it simply didn't work, it broke the camera, basically. Very glad I was able to undo this change.

Agree, I have shot with each brand and I always come back to Fuji.   Most people stick with the brand they started with, so others are always inferior for some reason.  Many on YouTube are paid reviewers and maybe use a camera for a few days.    Please realize that all brands are good.

I have Several Fuji Cameras and used several more since the X-Pro 1 days (I use fuji gear for all my pro work)

I still use an X-T3 as a video camera, granted a lot of the time in manual focus, as I am videoing things that either have a wide DOF using a wide angle lens so everything is in focus anyway.

However I shot a short film with students using the camera in autofocus with shallow DOF lens (F/1.4 - F/2.8) granted setup correctly not running the default settings.

Linear focus motors handled the autofocus better, but as they should, but had no real problems with any reasonably modern lens (the original18mm, 35mm and 60mm, i'd never use autofocus in video) .

The new Sigma 17-40mm has fast become my fav video lens no issues with autofocus even on the X-T3.

I think a lot of the complaints are even scare mongering, I here things like they can't trust fuji for weddings... I think why, I photograph events all the time with X trans 5 HR cameras (X-T5, X100 VI, X-H2 etc) and never worry about autofocus... out of 1000+ portrait photographs at an event every single one was in focus

do you remember which firmware you had for X-S20 when doing the comparison with ZV-E10?

I accept that your AF-C experience with the X-H2 is satisfactory. However it is a flagship camera. Many can't afford, or don't need a flagship camera. So I would love to know, perhaps from other users, if Fujifilm's less well spec-ed recent cameras, such as the X-M5, X-T30 III, X-E5, have AF-C that is as good as the X-H2/2S?

forensics do not use sony,they only use nikon and canon,when i got beat up the police used nikon to photo me

I could be mistaken but this video itself actually looks slightly back focused. Not exactly a great sign.

Reality, Fujifilm broke the AF on the later body's, took them moths to admit it, then issued a patch job which never took them back to how good they were on the earlier versions, THAT is the issue, and like all fuji bodys they still give false positives,  when an OM 1 indicates the image is in focus it;s in focus, with Fuji it might be in focus.

Would you say that the X-H2 has a slightly better autofocus capability than the X-T5? I have an X-T5, and I’m wondering if I should get the X-H2 partially because it has a better viewfinder and a more comfortable grip but, also, I’m hoping it has an autofocus system too. Thanks. 🙏

For sports you can use the X-Hs very well.

I shoot professionally with 3 Fujifilm bodies..GFX 100S II GFX 50s ii and XT5...No problems

The thing a lot of people don't realise with Fujifilm, is that they operate on a whole different philosophy to the other manufacturers. Fujifilm is all about user engagement. You have to take control of the AF, particularly in AF-C. Sony and Canon will pretty much work straight out of the box these days and as you've shown Fuji will with the modern crop of camera's and lenses. With older camera's you will have to work a little harder with your AF settings for specific scenarios and the older versions of lenses will not be as responsive. I have the X-T3 and X-H1 which for photography are absolutely fine and I nail focus all the time. I don't really do video much, but as long as I set up my AF correctly and this does require some experimentation, it will generally do ok, but is by no means on the same level as Sony and Canon.