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R5 on AirPower 2022

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SigZero
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Re: R5 on AirPower 2022
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Karl_Guttag wrote:

Joe Reynolds wrote:

I have found “object tracking” totally unreliable with R5 when in what Canon calls face detection.

That may be true if in either Human or Animal mode, but I find it works well in either Vehicle or None for tracking planes and the like.

I also find that "eye detection" in None or Vehicle modes (I have both available with dual back button focus) works to get the lens at least focused on something when I'm first raising the camera. I usually have the AF tracking based on the initial focus point, and that may totally miss, or you can't find anything when the lens is out of focus.

Since using Vehicle or None subject tracking (with help from "eye detection," or whatever the R5 does in Vehicle mode, to get started sometime), I find the camera will lock focus almost every time.

Mine experience is pretty similar.

For planes I'm using tracking with eye detection disabled, subject set to "none" and AF area set for whole frame. This way it is easy to "catch" the plane wherever it in the frame.

For trains I'm using exactly the same settings with the difference that I'm using initial AF point (the same as for other AF modes) to show AF what exactly to start tracking (the trains are much more predictable...)

Br, Pawel

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