j4nu wrote: zeitlos wrote: j4nu wrote: zeitlos wrote:
I've also tried using the AI to answer solve my problem. Apparently, Sony has simply removed the A7 III's approach. And supposedly, it no longer always displays the green boxes next to the eye, but only when the AI decides it's appropriate. Otherwise, it decides on its own that, for example, the face is sufficient?
Does this mean I can no longer manually specify that I don't want to use the AF field for focusing, but rather that the eye AF should also work outside the AF field? And if I want to, I can simply move the focus point with the joystick again?
Uh-oh...
I think the confusion stems from Sony changing the name of this button/option from "eyeAF" to "Subject detect" (or something like that).
I'm not sure when you updated firmware on your A7III, but you don't have to use a separate button for eyeAF anymore since quite a long time . You can still assign eyeAF to separate button though, to emulate the "old" eyeAF behavior . I think this should be possible also on a7V, but as I said, the function you need to assign to the button is not called "eyeAF" anymore...
Thank you. I'm quite busy right now but next week I'm on holiady so I will try to verify it.
Can you say if you notice any battery life difference vs A7III, when you have the time of course ?
So far, I have been only busy with trying to find out how to set up the A7V. So the display was on for a considerable time but not really while shooting. To be honest, if I can't make it work for me, I will send it back. As I understand I have to decide between the af mode where the camera finds eyes everywhere but in this mode I cannot move the af field. Or I switch to the one I can move the af field but then I can only active eye-af after moving the af field to where the person is located. The way it was possible with my A7III (having both) seems to have vanished. But maybe I'm wrong.
Edit: If AI is correct, there's no Sony, Nikon, Panasonic body anymore that offers this anymore as the A7III did. You always more or less have to move the af field to the person first.
It seems that only the Leica SL3 has this "A7 III mode" today.
Okay, one more update. This means I'd have to assign a button on the Sony A7 V to switch between the two focus modes, e.g., button 1 (e.g., C1): "Switch AF area". Then I'd only assign two modes there:
Tracking: Flexible Spot (L)
Wide
Meaning one press of the button = "local" vs. "global"
This would then be a kind of new Eye AF trigger. Pressing C1 again would then switch back to Flexible Spot. Certainly not very practical, but I can't think of anything better right now.
Switching to Leica SL would be the expensive version
Dec 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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. You can still assign eyeAF to separate button though, to emulate the "old" eyeAF behavior . I think this should be possible also on a7V, but as I said, the function you need to assign to the button is not called "eyeAF" anymore...
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