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M6II AF: When do you prefer to use spot vs 1-point vs zone vs face+tracking?

Started 8 months ago | Questions thread
Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
Re: M6II AF: When do you prefer to use spot vs 1-point vs zone vs face+tracking?

R2D2 wrote:

dedede wrote:

To all,

I’m getting familiar with my new M6II and the autofocus methods. I’d appreciate your thoughts about the situations in which you prefer to use spot vs 1-point vs zone vs face+tracking AF.

Thanks for your advice!

Welcome dedede,

Congrats on the awesome camera! I prefer to use Spot AF for everything. It’s ultra fast and ultra accurate. If you want to have some fun, you can use Face Detect when you’re close to your subject. It’s a bit slower than Spot though.

Here’s a link to some good info…

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64108171

And a link to the M6ii Tips & Tricks thread…

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4433968

Enjoy the new cam!

R2

Spot focus works for almost everything with the M6ii.  It does not work on an Amtrak train with smooth surfaces approaching you at around 70 mph... for that I use 'zone' focus with zone roughly in the center of the frame most times, or the tracking focus (but that sometimes picks up nearby objects).

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