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 p.1 #7 · Sports/Football Settings for Canon 7D.. (Any assistance appreciated) | |
A lot depends on the lighting, but I would start with saying that for something like football you need to change the default settings for AF tracking. Generally speaking, the single point or spot AF seem to be pretty reliable with the slower setting of III-1. If it is dark, then spot AF can be slow so I'd say single point manual. AF expansion works pretty well, but I did find a couple of times where the lowest expansion point would sometimes cause the camera to front focus, but only rarely. For football, use AI servo in Tv or Manual to ensure your shutter speed is at least 1/500; obviously at night you'll have to crank the ISO. If you are under the lights, make sure you set your custom white balance.
I'd change these cf's:
III-1: medium slow; helps when players move in front of subject or you move off your subject briefly while tracking
III-3: continuous AF track priority; ensures that the expansion point mode works better.
III-6: enable spot AF, AF point expansion, and single point manual selection; zone AF and auto select will bite you more than they will help you
IV-1: set the DOF preview to switch from AI servo to oneshot; good if you want to briefly go from AI servo to oneshot for a quick static subject or focus-recompose. oddly enough, you have to hlod the DOF button down to make it switch af modes (it is not a toggle like I expected it to be)
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