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I've been a happy owner of an RX100 M2, an RX100 M3, and now an RX100 M4.

One of the key reasons I upgraded to the M4 was the eye-tracking; however, I have not been able to figure out how to enable it. I have yet to see any eyes being tracked. Faces yes, eyes no.

What permutation of settings must I use?
 
RoboticPants said:
I've been a happy owner of an RX100 M2, an RX100 M3, and now an RX100 M4.

One of the key reasons I upgraded to the M4 was the eye-tracking; however, I have not been able to figure out how to enable it. I have yet to see any eyes being tracked. Faces yes, eyes no.

What permutation of settings must I use?
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You'll need to assign this function to a button.

MENU > (page 5 of CUSTOM SETTINGS MENU, the gear symbol) > CUSTOM KEY SETTINGS > EYE AF

Once assigned to a button, you'll need to press this button AND the shutter button to activate the EYE AF.

http://helpguide.sony.net/dsc/1530/v1/en/contents/TP0000809519.html?search=eye focus
 
Thank you!

Eye-tracking isn't even mentioned in the user manual.

Why would they hide such a great feature?

Dan
 
You need afs-c too... Auto mode doesn't allow afs-c, so you're relegated to one of the pasm modes to use eye tracking

Why its not more popular? Probably need more battery life and custom settings... I feel that the regular AF does a good job at tracking/detecting faces already
 
I would like to be corrected if I am wrong here but I think that we are confusing two modes here. Eye tracking as I understand the term is a when the camera senses the eye movement of the photographer as he or she is looking through the view finder and follows the focussing area according to where the photographer is actually looking i.e. the eye movement of the photographer not the subject. What I think the OP is referring to is the face detection and face focus tracking. Two very different things.
 
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mmarian said:
I would like to be corrected if I am wrong here but I think that we are confusing two modes here. Eye tracking as I understand the term is a when the camera senses the eye movement of the photographer as he or she is looking through the view finder and follows the focussing area according to where the photographer is actually looking i.e. the eye movement of the photographer not the subject. What I think the OP is referring to is the face detection and face focus tracking. Two very different things.
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I think what the OP is referring to is this

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-cybershot-dsc-rx100-iv/12

see Eye AF

This is similar to 'face detection' but specifically identifies and tracks the subject's eye

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mmarian said:
But that is not new. My Mk3 does it too.
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I don't know what the M3 does, but AIUI the difference is it now works in continuous AF mode

Finally, an additional option is Eye AF, now available for the first time on a Sony camera in continuous AF mode.
 
To be honest, it's really confusing. I've seen people talk about Eye AF during review and yet it is not readily available. Also the implementation is not good. You have to keep pressing the button while focusing and taking the shot instead of continuously and automatically focusing on the eye after a button press.

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Lawrencew said:
mmarian said:
But that is not new. My Mk3 does it too.
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I don't know what the M3 does, but AIUI the difference is it now works in continuous AF mode

Finally, an additional option is Eye AF, now available for the first time on a Sony camera in continuous AF mode.
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