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Back Button Focus for Wildlife

Started 9 months ago | Questions thread
Samuraidog Senior Member • Posts: 1,672
Re: Back Button Focus for Wildlife

Greybeard2017 wrote:

DocShaka wrote:

Hello all.

I came across an interesting video today that mentioned the possibility of setting two BBF buttons to two different modes. For wildlife, particularly Bird In Flight, it would be a game changer to have my XT4's AEL button use AF-S (or AF-C) and single point and then be able to instantly jump to the AF-ON button and have that use AF-C 5x5 focus mode as the bird or other subject starts to move.

Is this possible on our Fujis? I can't seem to find the setting if it is.

Thanks for any info.

Doc

Not on the X-T4.

The closest you could get with the X-H2S is to set up different custom banks of settings and switch between them - then you could keep a single AF-ON button with different meanings. You could use a function button to instantly jump between modes.

This is what I've done on my X-H2S. C2 is set to single point bird mode, and C3 is set to zone for birds in flight. It actually works out fairly well, as I also have a default shutter speed for both scenarios. Certainly not as fast as simply pushing a button without moving your face from the camera, but it works OK for me so far.

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