more than a year later I still find the moving spot annoying both with the native zoomlens and with my library of manuals.

Especially with snow on the landscape; focusing on a branch in the corner of the frame is not ideal.

The remedy is to use more time and not trying to catch the moment using autofocussing lenses but to leave such at home. use proper manual optics and possibly refrain from exact expposure of the most interesting part of the motive and try the weighting systems built into most cameras-

p.