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

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AtmaWarna Regular Member • Posts: 119
Re: Can Canon AF do real time tracking of objects (not just faces,eyes,cars,animals etc)?
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Laqup wrote:

AtmaWarna wrote:

Man you need to rent R3, R6 ii, R7 or even R10 if you didnt have enough money.

Here videos how it works in my camera. Its pretty much mimic those nikon tracking without any additional button to disengage or recenter the af point.

https://youtu.be/eQuzAvNG-WI

If you dont want to rent a new camera, you can try nimonus settings on your R5 and assign it into a button

Thanks for posting this and for taking the time. Most of what I just replied to Jonathan holds true for this video as well.

In your case the tracking has quite some difficulties to latch onto the foreground object in the later parts of the video. As already said: I know that tracking is present, I am just not convinced that it is still optimized to its full potential (Nimonous method doesn't change performance).

Thanks for sharing!

from 2:30 to 3:50 AF setting priority set to OFF and eye detection OFF . it latch to screwdriver and didnt switch focus to people.

AF drift start at 3:50 and later , i did it on purpose to demonstrate what could go wrong because the priority set to people and eye detetion ON .it always seeks people face or eyes despite your initial tracking are not people face or eyes.

i think you're just getting confused or distracted by the canon's UI . maybe you're just so used to how nikon's work .that's pretty subjective & its fine for me . just trying to put that you can do it on canon ,its pretty sticky & easier to use.

again you need to try it yourself on newer camera.

edit : i record it from canon camera connect. the display information is very limited and not all AF setting shown on screen.

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