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Lenses on mirrorless body need Focus calibration ?

Started 3 months ago | Discussions thread
Andy01 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,191
Re: Lenses on mirrorless body need Focus calibration ?

neilt3 wrote:

Your saying even if the camera was just sat on a table still switched on , it would continue to focus ?

  • In which case , why keep the button held down?

This is only if the AF-C (Canon's Continuous AF feature used in the M series and R series mirrorless cameras) is turned on. Technically it wouldn't continue trying to focus if it was sitting on a table without being touched - as long as it was able to lock focus on something.

But if it was hanging around your neck (as you rightly say the mirrorless tend to stay on because the EVF proximity feature keeps them "alive") and this AF-C was turned on it could keep trying to focus on the new subject as the camera kept moving.

I suspect that if you did a poll, most Canon mirrorless users generally have this Continuous AF turned off and use One Shot (your AF-S perhaps ?) or Servo (your AF-C perhaps ?).

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