Back Button Focus for Wildlife

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Morris0 wrote:

Greybeard2017 wrote:

Samuraidog wrote:

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.

You have probably already figured this out but if you used C1 and C2 then you could use a function button to switch between them.

As a toggle? If so, that's quite nice. This makes them act as a memory bank. It would be great if they were to offer separate memory banks and leave the Cx for other uses.

Morris

Yes - it only works for C1 - you can switch from any other settings to C1 (and back) with a single press. It's temporary - it will switch back when you turn the camera off.

Whatever you are shooting you know you can instantly switch to a predefined bank of settings without needing to look at the camera or make multiple setting changes.

I'd have the camera configured for zone with subject detection and then have C1 set for single point.

I believe that would be the perfect wildlife and action setup yet will not know till I'm shouting with an X-H2s for a while.

Morris