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M6II: Tips to focus correctly

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Re: M6II: Tips to focus correctly

Zeee wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

ThrillaMozilla wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

If you're a left-hemisphere person, you can instead configure the AF-On button to "Stop Focus" instead.

??? There must be more to it than that. I tried it and the shutter release still controls it. AF stops when I take my finger off the shutter release. So it must also require a special setting for the shutter release?

AF is still on the shutter. You have to HOLD DOWN the AF-ON button to lock focus.

R2

If you have trouble keeping the shutter half pressed you can use a BBF or turn the AF Preview on. Page 3 of the purple menus. I white focus square will kick in and continue to AF.

Except the problem for me is that when you (half) press the shutter button again, it starts AF over from scratch anyways!  Plus if you end up pointing the camera anywhere else in the meantime, the focus goes waaay off.

R2

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