dclark wrote: arbitrage wrote:
I wonder if it will be useful to use the "old" Eye-AF method by assigning a custom button to Eye-AF. Then if you hit that button it looks over the entire frame instead of the new method of just looking within your selected AF Area?? I think I may have a button set to do that just in case.
I don't understand your comment. The instructions seem to say that the "new" Eye-AF it looks over the entire frame, not limited to the selected AF area.
Also, this seems to say that if it does not find an eye it does not AF at all. That does not sound good to me.
Using Eye-AF on a Custom button is a way to go back to the "old" Eye-AF method where Eye-AF was activated and it searched the entire sensor for an eye with no control.
I can't remember when it changed to the new method but I believe it was either on the A7III/A7RIII from the get go or maybe just when the FW updates happened?? Regardless....doesn't matter.
Now the new way is that it only searches for eyes within the area of your selected AF mode...like within the Zone or within the Flex Spot. The new way is better. Technically you can also get the old way by using Wide via the new way (confused yet) because there it looks over the entire sensor anyways.
Yes, what I don't recall is if using the old way via an Eye-AF custom key does any other focusing if no eye is detected. If it doesn't then I agree the mode is sort of useless for what I'm shooting as I might as well just leave Wide AF on whatever custom button I was going to use for Eye-AF. The more I think about it the more doing that with Wide makes more sense.
When I posted that yesterday the thought that I had was if I was in a Flex Spot shooting something more stationary and then had to react to a BIF quickly I could just hammer the Eye-AF key and it would search the entire sensor for the bird's eye and maybe get the shot. But if you are correct and it only does Eye-AF and not any Wide focusing then that won't work for me. I will just do what I do now and have Recall Custom Hold or Recall Registered AF Area be Wide (or Zone) and quickly get on the BIF that way where it will do AF and will do Eye if it finds one.
Feb 20, 2021 at 07:57 AM
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) because there it looks over the entire sensor anyways.