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Initial thoughts on moving to the R3 from Canon DSLRs

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Falxon
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Re: Initial thoughts on moving to the R3 from Canon DSLRs

Paul JN wrote:

cfieldgate wrote:

So, what were you hoping for? I’m not sure how much simpler to operate Eye Control AF could be.

Maybe I'm expecting too much but I would like one method to tell the camera what I want and not need a backup method when that fails. With my R5/R6 I need to have two back buttons: one for face + tracking and one for ordinary AF that I need as a backup for when the face + tracking gets pulled away by a face the camera prefers.

So I've spent another day doing some testing and have found that I am using the eye-control around 95% of the time now. The "hack" I never thought about was to set the AF point to spot AF (so the tiniest point possible). Since you're controlling where it goes by looking, there really hasn't been a point where it doesn't "just work." This also solves most of the edge cases such as working around a small obstruction, since the AF point is small enough to just place precisely.

To rephrase @cfieldgate above, I really don't see how you could ask for a simpler, more predictable setup. The only catch is your eye color - as long as you don't have very light eyes, you should be good.

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