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Face tracking accuracy for portraits?

Started May 13, 2018 | Discussions thread
rmexpress22 Senior Member • Posts: 2,304
Re: Face tracking accuracy for portraits?

I'm not sure which ones, but I thought newer Canon bodies specifically had eye tracking or detection.

For face tracking, the 80D does extremely well. You can even move the face out of the frame and when the face is back in the frame it'll continue to track it. The 80D only has face tracking. When I have used it, at the distance you're demonstrating, DoF shouldn't be an issue and it should nail the focus just about every time.

If you're shooting very close where you have razor-thing DoF you can tap on the eye and it'll track the eye.

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