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

R2D2 wrote:

Laqup wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

Laqup wrote:

and a teaching on how to do it differently and why this method is not relevant anyway. In my eyes the disrespectfulness is coming "from the other side" and his observation is spot on.

Well what relevant method do YOU use for shooting your landscapes?

R2

Try to think a bit outside the box.

Here, let me first post what the OP actually wrote...

Jens H wrote:

AF point selection in landscape photography has never been so easy for me. This works with any object that has even a bit of contrast, which can be bushes, rocks, fences, houses, just about anything.

Thinking outside the box is exactly what I'm asking of the OP!! They are stuck on ONE way to achieve focus for their landscapes. I pointed out another method that's just as fast, takes less effort, and locks on indefinitely.

You are focusing very much on landscapes and "still lives".

That's what the OP asked about! Just re-read what they wrote. (pssst. I re-posted it above for you).

The method the author describes is useful in general, without the focus on landscape. Read the initial post and you will see that first of all the method itself was described and only later landscape was mentioned as one example were the author is using this technique.

Here's their OP again for easy reference...

Jens H wrote:

But currently I use the Sony a6600 mainly for one reason: AF Real Time Tracking. All I have to do is aim my AF field at any object whose position in the later image I consider suitable for AF selection, gently hold the shutter button down, and the camera tracks the object I'm aiming at in the AF field absolutely reliably while I compose the picture. AF point selection in landscape photography has never been so easy for me.

OP writes about NO other types of photography than Landscape. In fact, "Landscape" is mentioned in the same paragraph as his description of the method.

But as you can also read in the initial post it can be used for "just about anything".

Here:

Jens H wrote:

AF point selection in landscape photography has never been so easy for me. This works with any object that has even a bit of contrast, which can be bushes, rocks, fences, houses, just about anything.

The "just about anything" is posted in the same sentence as "bushes, rocks, fences, houses." You removed this phrase from its context! In fact you removed it from its sentence.

Anyone can clearly see that "just about anything" does not refer to some other type of photography. It refers to the types of objects in his landscape photography (they're listed right there)!

So try to keep that in mind while suggesting different methods or before "condemning" the method.

I never condemned the OP's method. I merely offered an alternative that was just as fast, takes less effort, and locks on indefinitely (BBAF). I was trying to help the OP to shoot his landscapes. Simply that.

Think about the possibilities for various use cases.

No "various use cases" were inquired about by the OP (that's something that you wrote). Only landscapes. I can post their OP again.

For many years I was a "Canon only guy"...

Seriously. Then you go and recommend a much more cumbersome method of shooting Landscapesfor the OP to use. You both should try my method. It's always been hugely popular. I bet it'll turn a frown into a smile!

R2

I gave you perfectly fine use cases where this methods can be handy and all you can do is ramble about landscapes and interpeting text so that fit your narrative? No comment at all to the examples shown in the video? Okay thanks for the discussion.

Except for very few members of the board there does not seem to be an actual basic understanding of the concept of "performance evaluation" (and the quantification of results) and a complete lack of interest to discuss such things. Instead only their own agenda is being pushed ("my camera can do it all", "of course it works", "latest bodies are certainly much better", "your settings are wrong", "your camera is defective", "method is not necessary for landsacpes" etc etc..)

Let's better avoid any topic that might indicate an existing potential on Canon bodies as this seem to be too sensitive for most owners of Canon cameras. I get it.

And btw, I wouldn't use this method for classic wide angle landscape either. It gets more interesting when you get (much) closer to your subjects. The method you describe is viable for landscapes. Are you happy/unstuck now?