STOP using Focus & Recompose

[tcg550]

STOP USING Focus and Recompose. When you focus using centre AF point and then recompose your shot, you tend to shift the focus plane behind the persons head and eyes are out of focus, So intead compose and then select an AF point thats closest to the eyes.

- Or, use a camera that has either eye-focus or lock-on, so that you can recompose without changing the focus.

What's lock-on AF? And how would eye-focus help you recompose? Unless you used some sort of servo/continous af in a tracking mode, I don't see how this would help.

Especially if I don't own a camera with that feature.

 

[tedolf]

Pending the OP's explanation to the contrary we can only assume that this is what shall be known as Trumpian agreement to future generations.

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I'm out.

Why do you people always, always have to ruin everything by bringing politics into totally unrelated topic?

You people are obsessed.

Tedolph

 

[Mystery member]

STOP USING Focus and Recompose. When you focus using centre AF point and then recompose your shot, you tend to shift the focus plane behind the persons head and eyes are out of focus, So intead compose and then select an AF point thats closest to the eyes.

- Or, use a camera that has either eye-focus or lock-on, so that you can recompose without changing the focus.

What's lock-on AF? And how would eye-focus help you recompose? Unless you used some sort of servo/continous af in a tracking mode, I don't see how this would help.

Sony does lock-on and continuous tracking remarkably well. It's really designed for action (where it will even track subjects that briefly leave the field of view), but the same feature is also applicable to portraiture...

Typically, you want your subject in focus and perhaps a little off-centre, so you simply select the subject with a button press and track the green focus box to the desired position in the frame, then snap. Beats Nikon's limited focus point selection hands down.

For action photography, you can have auto subject selection on shutter press. I've successfully tracked fast planes at 11 frames/sec.

Eye focus is pretty good as well, and tracks continuously.