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Back Button Focus, enabling and disabling it easily?
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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 717017" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>No clever way that I know of to jump back and forth. It took me a year to get used to bbf. I quit and went back a few times but I'm all in now. Its become second nature and my thumb finds the button as I pick up the camera.</p><p>I'm not a big fan of the U modes, they get confusing. If you make changes without re-saving a a U, they are temporary. They stay for a power cycle but leaving U mode reverts it to the saved settings when you come back to U. Not good for any everyday shooting for me. My U's are set very basic. One is set for shutter button focus and auto everything in case I hand the camera to someone else to use. The other is my 'bigfoot' mode. It is set for my usual bbf settings and auto iso. Its for just in case I am in the middle of doing something special and bigfoot runs out of the woods and I need to quickly get to the bbf settings I'm comfortable with. </p><p>Since you are not comfortable with bbf, I would set bbf for one of your U's and just play with it when you have time and maybe it will grow on you. I think for it to be truly handy, it needs to be second nature and your 'everyday' mode. At least that's how it is for me. Last year I tried to set a U to what I felt were good bird in flight settings with shutter button focus. It didnt work out, I'm too used to pushing that back button for focus. Just the opposite of what you are doing now. Back when I first tried it I had the same problem, I'd forget to focus. Then one day it just clicked and I started using it full time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickt, post: 717017, member: 4923"] No clever way that I know of to jump back and forth. It took me a year to get used to bbf. I quit and went back a few times but I'm all in now. Its become second nature and my thumb finds the button as I pick up the camera. I'm not a big fan of the U modes, they get confusing. If you make changes without re-saving a a U, they are temporary. They stay for a power cycle but leaving U mode reverts it to the saved settings when you come back to U. Not good for any everyday shooting for me. My U's are set very basic. One is set for shutter button focus and auto everything in case I hand the camera to someone else to use. The other is my 'bigfoot' mode. It is set for my usual bbf settings and auto iso. Its for just in case I am in the middle of doing something special and bigfoot runs out of the woods and I need to quickly get to the bbf settings I'm comfortable with. Since you are not comfortable with bbf, I would set bbf for one of your U's and just play with it when you have time and maybe it will grow on you. I think for it to be truly handy, it needs to be second nature and your 'everyday' mode. At least that's how it is for me. Last year I tried to set a U to what I felt were good bird in flight settings with shutter button focus. It didnt work out, I'm too used to pushing that back button for focus. Just the opposite of what you are doing now. Back when I first tried it I had the same problem, I'd forget to focus. Then one day it just clicked and I started using it full time. [/QUOTE]
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