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

Laqup wrote:

Just as a reminder to help you understand why I replied in the way I did:

This is not going to be a friendly post.

Just a reminder why we don't take kindly to your propaganda. You're complaining loudly because you took the trouble to attach a video camera or recorder to your camera, and we don't want to do that because it's a nontrivial project to do it right. Then you complained because the handheld videos people have done weren't good enough for you. Then you're loudly proclaiming the supposed superiority of your camera.

I repeated your tests with all your use cases, but my word wasn't good enough for you either.

I have on my computer a series of 7 images of a dove on the ground, under conditions of low contrast and moderately low illumination. I was able to move the camera rapidly between shots, to add fast motion to the mix. The camera tracked the dove, and the images show the focus point locked to the dove.

Then, with no change in settings, I focused on faces and eyes on the covers of books, using eye detection. I was able to select which face and move the camera around rapidly without losing the focus point. The camera kept tracking the whole time. The response was not instantaneous, but certainly good enough for people.

It's a bit of an effort to present all that while showing the focus areas. I have to take screen shots from DPP, then transfer images in a couple of steps to a canvas on a graphics program, then do the same with cropped images, in order to display this for DPR. I also have a life, and things I need to attend to.

For display purposes it's also much better through the viewfinder. Maybe if you all say pretty please and buy the bracket(s) I will need, I will attach a video camera to the viewfinder and record this in action. Or maybe not.

In the mean time, be assured that my camera does manage to focus, in spite of armchair opinions to the contrary.