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R6 AF tracking issue.

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Laqup Regular Member • Posts: 351
Re: R6 AF tracking issue.
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Gam3r01 wrote:

AFAIK, and I might be wrong, but that is showing you the focal plane. It means that area is also in focus, not necessarily thats what the AF is locked on to. I believe it has to be a single solid box to indicate the actual focus area.

Why it does that, I dont know. I think I saw it when I use manual on a different AF setting. I dont see that on my use case, which is full tracking in FV mode (C1-3)

You are wrong. Those are the focus points the camera chooses in tracking mode for you (and yes they are typically on the same focal plane :-)). Unlike other implementations (Sony, Nikon, ..) the "initial tracking area / point" does not have a fixed shape but can take any form of focus point clusters. This is what you see in the screenshot. The later Canon cameras promise slightly better performance and tracking, but are still not state of the art (for non detectable objects, detection is excellent).

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