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Can Canon AF do real time tracking of objects (not just faces,eyes,cars,animals etc)?

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John Sheehy Forum Pro • Posts: 26,688
Re: Can Canon AF do real time tracking of objects (not just faces,eyes,cars,animals etc)?
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Alastair Norcross wrote:
It's not that the Canons can't do what you want. It's just that there's simply no need. Mirrorless AF lets you position the AF point pretty much throughout the whole frame. Focus and recompose was a technique from the days of limited AF spread in DSLRs. You can do it with the R or R7, but you don't need to.

You don't need to, but I prefer recompose because then the AF point is consistently in the center and I don't get any lost shots because the small AF zone was not in the center when the next sudden photo-op presents itself. Too much confusion for me, to keep moving the AF point around and forget where it is.

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