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Back Button Focus for Wildlife

Started 9 months ago | Questions thread
Morris0
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Re: Back Button Focus for Wildlife
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Back Button focus is an old style that was invented when subject tracking was not that good and before it was easy to steer the focus to your subject.  Back button allowed for very nice focus using the center AF point and then recompose with the focus locked on the subject.

With the ability to move the focus selection to the subject it has been obsolete for a long time.  When cameras began to track the area we focused on it became even more obsolete and with subject tracking even more trivalent.

On the Z9, some people like to override subject tracking with a single button push switching to 3D tracking.

I think the best solution on the X-H2s would be a preset or button that turns off subject tracking and you use the joystick.  I don't use BBF so it overrides subject tracking to what I do today, move the joystick to the subject or place the joystick where I want the subject in the frame.

Morris

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