I've never really paid much attention to continuous autofocus in video capture. (I don't think I had any issues with my old Galaxy S phone, which I don't think had it). The Atrix doesn't seem to have continuous autofocus and you need to tap to refocus the video. This is in comparison to other phones with continuous autofocus (Galaxy S II, HTC Sensation, etc.) The blurriness is very evident. Here's a youtube video, where sometimes the video looks sharp, othertimes not so much.
Motorola ATRIX 2 1080p Camera Sample - BWOne.com - YouTube
My question is, how involved in tapping and refocusing do I have to be to keep the video sharp looking? Or is it okay to ignore it as long as I'm shooting relatively distant pans and such? Having to constantly tap to refocus seems like a big annoyance using both hands or jerking the phone when trying to one-hand it, and sometimes when you are just looking off to the side and not exactly at the phone display, you can't always pay attention to where the focus is. Maybe that video is just exaggerating the excessive need to refocus, I dunno.
Edit: Now that I've looked at some more videos, I think I'm just creating an issue out of something that never really was an issue. It only needs to refocus for very close up video, which is rather rare, and I should be able to handle that much. All my other phones didn't have continuous autofocus and it never bothered me so yeah I'm making issues out of thin air.
That youtube video seems to be extra bad quality since it was re-encoded again with a watermark...
Motorola ATRIX 2 1080p Camera Sample - BWOne.com - YouTube
My question is, how involved in tapping and refocusing do I have to be to keep the video sharp looking? Or is it okay to ignore it as long as I'm shooting relatively distant pans and such? Having to constantly tap to refocus seems like a big annoyance using both hands or jerking the phone when trying to one-hand it, and sometimes when you are just looking off to the side and not exactly at the phone display, you can't always pay attention to where the focus is. Maybe that video is just exaggerating the excessive need to refocus, I dunno.
Edit: Now that I've looked at some more videos, I think I'm just creating an issue out of something that never really was an issue. It only needs to refocus for very close up video, which is rather rare, and I should be able to handle that much. All my other phones didn't have continuous autofocus and it never bothered me so yeah I'm making issues out of thin air.
That youtube video seems to be extra bad quality since it was re-encoded again with a watermark...
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