Caution ! Dynamic AF versus single point AF... !

SteveL54 wrote:

I'm not sure what qualifies as "face detection" versus a bias, but here's what the D800 manual says about viewfinder auto-area AF:

"Auto-area AF: The camera automatically detects the subject and selects the focus point; if a face is detected, the camera will give priority to the portrait subject."

It's not likely to be as capable as LV face detect -- a mere 91K pixels vs 36K pixels. Nor does it handle faces outside the total AF group.

It makes no mention of how faces impact dynamic area operation -- if at all. My post was a bit tongue-in-cheek and I took a little bit of license with the 21-pt operation.

Steve