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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Can someone explain "locking on" please?


Sorry and I don't mean to sound like a complete moron here I just want to make sure I am doing this the right way.

For reference I am coming from an A6000. The procedure to lock onto a subject to track it for that camera was basically as follows....

Push a button to go into a tracking mode. This mode would have a box in the middle of the lcd screen. You put the box on the thing you want to track and push the ok button. From there the box will turn green and you can move your camera around the the box will correspondingly stay locked onto the subject you told it to lock on to. It worked pretty well.

I now have the D750. I use back button focus but usually stick to single point and just move around the 51 points using the dpad. However, I just want to make sure I am using tracking correctly.

I think** I enable AF-C which its always in anyways.
I then go to 3D mode for my focus select points.
I then put the center cursor over what I want to have it lock to and ....

This is where I get confused. Do I now push and hold my AE-L <-which is set to focus) button or do I just push it once.

I keep reading people talking about 'locking onto the eye' but what does that actually mean? And every youtube video I watch isn't necessarily clear.

Thanks!



Jan 21, 2016 at 02:21 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Can someone explain "locking on" please?


HI Tommygun,
You will need to hold the AE-L button to keep focus tracking active. As soon as you let go focusing will stop.
Locking onto the eye is important to most wildlife and portrait photographers in terms of ensuring that the eye of the subject is in focus. Without the eye in focus the entire image will have a look of softness even if another area of the frame is sharp, unless of course the photographer intended it that way for some reason.



Jan 21, 2016 at 02:33 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Can someone explain "locking on" please?


Steve's clip is one of the best out there on this subject:




Jan 21, 2016 at 03:59 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Can someone explain "locking on" please?


^^ Definitely view this video - it helps a great deal.


Jan 21, 2016 at 08:42 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Can someone explain "locking on" please?


It's when a Keno girl...


Jan 22, 2016 at 07:53 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Can someone explain "locking on" please?


trenchmonkey wrote:
It's when a Keno girl...







Jan 22, 2016 at 09:31 AM





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