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After 50 weddings with the R3's

Started 9 months ago | User reviews thread
gimp_dad Senior Member • Posts: 2,692
Re: After 50 weddings with the R3's

noggin2k1 wrote:

Alastair Norcross wrote:

gimp_dad wrote:

I love the shots you shared! Thanks for your helpful review.

I'm curious about what doesn't work for you regarding eyeAF. I am definitely not a wedding photographer but have done them from time to time pro bono when requested by those who otherwise wouldn't have a photographer at all. Starting with the R5, I found using eye AF helpful but always have used it with an initial focus point such that I am selecting the person to focus on from the beginning and then framing the way I want the scene while continuing the half-press to maintain the focus on the subject in question. Both the R5 and R3 seem to do a great job of sticking to the original subject when used this way. Most of my experience with this is with events that are not weddings but it seemed to work with weddings as well.

Any further comment about the issue?

Maybe the OP was talking about eye-controlled AF?

Yep, my bad here - I'm talking about the eye controlled AF, where there is a sensor in the viewfinder that focusses on where you're looking. I find it gets close, but not quite spot on in a busy scene.

That being said, eyeAF is one of the AF settings I do need to change - I need to be able to toggle it on/off fast, as I'm not always looking for an eye.

Oh that makes sense. I don't actually use eye controlled AF myself. I just love the smart controller and find it to be incredibly fast and easier to use as I don't want to necessarily point my iris at the subject (I know this sounds weird but framing requires one to be looking all over the scene in real time).

I am not much of a BBF user but I have the AF-on button set to do point AF as kind of a ripcord setting for when I'm in one of my normal eye AF modes and don't have time to switch modes another way. It's instantaneous of course.

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