How To Configure Sony Autofocus (Moving Objects Or People)
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Gary, get a model to demonstrate this feature. Use a real world scenario to illustrate what this feature was actually designed for.
Doing this work is fine for you, if that’s what you want to do. But honestly Gary, the scenario you’ve constructed is the furthest thing away from what this feature is designed for. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is going to use object tracking for static table top still life photography.
When you title a video “How to configure Sony Autofocus (Moving Objects or People), then try to live up to the title and actually use a “Moving Object or People”.
He’s showing you how to set it up for focus tracking in a simple straight forward way in this video. There are other videos on his YouTube page showing this function in action with a group of soccer players. The camera is able to lock onto a specific player and continue tracking him even when running between other players.blocking his view to the camera. Check out his page, it works well, or get off your a$$ and try it yourself.
Just another crippled AF
That comment makes no sense….
Does this” lock on” AF use the phase detection focus points or is that just contrast detect?
AF-C on wide is phase detect, but just inside this box in the middle of the frame.
If this is true, the “lock on AF” would be usable for a stills scene and improve the “center focus and recompose” technique, while the AF-C would be better for any actual moving subjects.
Can anyone please help? The video lacks a lot of information of how and when to use what.
If you own the camera, go out into the real world and try what works, don’t be a sheep and follow fong.
Cameras are computers that capture data; lose subjectivity and use objectivity
I get irritated by people whose persona is to wear baseball caps indoors all the time. Why do they do it?
I get irritated by people whose persona is to wear baseball caps WHILE THEY’RE NOT PLAYIN’ BASEBALL. Why do they do it? 😀
I think they have self image issues and wear a ball cap because they think it makes them look better. That tends to be what it seems like with the people I have known that wear ball caps all the time.
It is future advertising space. He is priming you for it! 🙂
As soon as digitalrevs pays for it, like SAR/SAF, he will be flashing it on the cap.
I don’t think its so complex actually, here is my summary:
For tracking select AF-C. then to use the phase detect pixels use either Wide or Lock-on Flexible Spot – so long as the locked on target is in the center area it seems like the phase detect pixels are used, regardless of where the Spot is initially placed.
Fong’s autofocus video is fine, but the scariest thing about the new IBIS A7 cameras is the battery life. Does anyone know whether using manual focus lenses significantly extends the battery life? He’s dropping 6-7% over a ten minute video… I had my finger on the mouse trigger for a new a7 ii, but this has kind of stunned me.
Man, this guy is hideous!
After watching this video I’m not surprised he couldn’t get the Canon 7D II to work properly 🙂