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R5 Settings for Soccer

Started 2 months ago | Discussions thread
Don Regular Member • Posts: 491
Re: R5 Settings for Soccer
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Set for people detection and eye detection. If your subject is close you definitely want eye detection on.

Notice that with the above settings, as the person recedes the highlighted focus area goes from eye to square around the head to rectangle around the body, which is what you want to focus on a soccer player.

Set your focus area top middle of the LCD for landscape orientation and top middle for portrait orientation. These are the camera's starting points. Do not half press your shutter to focus unless your subject is in this area. Use servo AF.

Do not move your camera too rapidly to track your subject. Let the camera AF track the subject within the frame to some extent.

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