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Nikon DSLR Cameras
D7100
Back button focus , disables lateral tracking off center point?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stoshowicz" data-source="post: 355362" data-attributes="member: 31397"><p>Im just learning of this back button focus procedure, It appears to be a convenient way to lock focus after the autoF has chosen a distance, or conversely, if one doesnt release the rear AF button , the camera continues to search continuously at the main (center) focus point.</p><p><em>((The focus priority should? - or is ? disabled in favor of shutter release priority . It seemed last night that focus acquisition was still required to release the shutter.))</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em>Now, if one is using one of the 'area' focus modes , that is to say d51 d9 d21 or 3d , Im thinking these would also be disabled because the camera would never actually select a permanent target point to hold in focus,, is that correct? </p><p>So if I want the camera to assist me by locking on temporarily to an object both moving toward or away ,, and at the same time laterally off the center focus point,,, it can no longer do this- in the back button focus configuration, right?</p><p></p><p>And this seems might be true as well if one turns the focus lock period to its slowest , off , level. ,, because the focus would remain 'locked in' for a duration of zero. Is that right? , the focus lock must be more than zero to track ?</p><p></p><p>Or is it that in single point D51 the camera is just not tracking predictively anyway?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stoshowicz, post: 355362, member: 31397"] Im just learning of this back button focus procedure, It appears to be a convenient way to lock focus after the autoF has chosen a distance, or conversely, if one doesnt release the rear AF button , the camera continues to search continuously at the main (center) focus point. [I]((The focus priority should? - or is ? disabled in favor of shutter release priority . It seemed last night that focus acquisition was still required to release the shutter.)) [/I]Now, if one is using one of the 'area' focus modes , that is to say d51 d9 d21 or 3d , Im thinking these would also be disabled because the camera would never actually select a permanent target point to hold in focus,, is that correct? So if I want the camera to assist me by locking on temporarily to an object both moving toward or away ,, and at the same time laterally off the center focus point,,, it can no longer do this- in the back button focus configuration, right? And this seems might be true as well if one turns the focus lock period to its slowest , off , level. ,, because the focus would remain 'locked in' for a duration of zero. Is that right? , the focus lock must be more than zero to track ? Or is it that in single point D51 the camera is just not tracking predictively anyway? [/QUOTE]
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