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Face tracking accuracy for portraits?

Started May 13, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Max Iso
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Face tracking accuracy for portraits?
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In a couple weeks i will be buying a camera. My main genre is portraits, large aperture, subject isolation, 100mm or maybe longer. An example of what i shoot often is below.

As much as i like my Nikons, i also live in a climate with very high humidity in the summer and it causes a lot of AF issues between indoor/outdoor (and i don't want to have to constantly calibrate on the fly). A good LV system will solve that. So im looking at something like a SL2 or even M5.

So my question has to do with AF accuracy in face tracking. Even with an SL2, i will never use anything other than LV. Is the face recognition/tracking very accurate when it comes to the eyes? Some people have faces more flat that others, some have more depth, so what the camera does with the focal plane can matter. Im wondering if anybody shoots portraits in this fashion who can speak to it's accuracy.

I have seen a lot of dual pixel samples of tracking, and with video (both i would be happy with), but a good portrait photo explanation with face tracking is elusive. If anybody can offer information it would be appreciated. Cheers.

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