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

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Deak Regular Member • Posts: 229
Re: Can Canon AF do real time tracking of objects (not just faces,eyes,cars,animals etc)?
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Joe, your experience echoes mine.

We are not talking about object recognition here, but lock on and subsequent tracking of random objects in a scene as opposed to faces or eyes.

Both my A6600 and A1 can track almost anything flawlessly as I recompose once locked on to any object or feature in the frame, while the Canon systems will track sporadically and then jump focus to other objects in the vicinity of the original target.

I have tried many variations of settings on the R5, R6, and R3, and although object tracking performance improves (especially with face and eye detect off) with some setting changes, none can touch  the performance that the two Sony cameras deliver. I have no experience with the R7.

This is a big difference often overlooked by reviewers who concentrate on subject detection as the primary method of initiating tracking.

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