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

Alastair Norcross wrote:

Jens H wrote:

Thats thread is helpful, it seems the R5 will not allow to mimick the Sony Real Time Track option. Reading other answers in my thread I fear the same for the other Canon R cameras.

Really? Why? Are you saying that I wasn't reliably reporting my experience with my R7? What is the point in my going to the trouble of actually testing a feature you're asking about, and telling you what I see, if you're just going to disbelieve me, based on what some other people say about the AF behavior of different cameras? What you have been told in this thread is that the R5 doesn't seem to do what you want it to do, at least not in the way you want it to. Of course, you don't know whether the R5 users who report this have set up their cameras to get the behavior you want. Most people don't see the value in focus and recompose on inanimate objects, especially for landscapes, so they're not likely to have optimized their camera settings for that. I actually took the trouble to set up my R7 to give it the best chance to do what you wanted (I've changed the settings now, because I have no interest in shooting like that normally). it worked perfectly. And yet, you 'fear' that other R cameras (presumably the ones you originally asked about), won't do what you want, because of reports of users of a camera you didn't ask about. Well, you can lead a horse to water, as they say. I guess I won't bother answering any more of your questions, if you're just going to ignore what I say (or even imply that I'm lying). Perhaps what you should have said is "can anyone with the R5 tell me their experiences, so I can extrapolate wildly to a camera with a different AF system?"

Would it be possible to tone down the aggression a little?

I'd be interested if it's possible, in seeing how other R cameras which are newer than the R5 can handle this type of scenario. I wouldn't say it's a problem per say with ours but if canon have some newer systems that could provide more flexibility it would be really good to see it in action.

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