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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 491790" data-attributes="member: 13090">Your D50 can do back button focus, you just need to re-assign the AE-L/AF-L button. In the Custom Settings menu, go to Option 14 (Assign AE-L/AF-L) and choose the option for &quot;AF ON&quot;. This will disable focusing with a half-press of the shutter button and move that function to the AE-L/AF-L button. Now use AF-C and with back button focus enabled you have, effectively, AF-C &quot;on demand&quot;: Press and hold for continuous focus, let go of the button to &quot;lock&quot; focus (until you press the button again).When working with subjects who are not trained models, as I often do, I sometimes find it helpful to simply tell them to hold their position so I can get a particular shot. Something like, &quot;Hold that pose for me... *click-click-click*... Perfect. Thank you.&quot; I've not found anyone yet who can't manage to hold a pose for a few seconds at a time. No, it's not how I prefer to work with subjects, generally speaking, but sometimes you do what you have to do. If your subjects simply can't be still, even for a few seconds at a time, you probably need to find new subjects or hire actual models......</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 491790, member: 13090"] Your D50 can do back button focus, you just need to re-assign the AE-L/AF-L button. In the Custom Settings menu, go to Option 14 (Assign AE-L/AF-L) and choose the option for "AF ON". This will disable focusing with a half-press of the shutter button and move that function to the AE-L/AF-L button. Now use AF-C and with back button focus enabled you have, effectively, AF-C "on demand": Press and hold for continuous focus, let go of the button to "lock" focus (until you press the button again). When working with subjects who are not trained models, as I often do, I sometimes find it helpful to simply tell them to hold their position so I can get a particular shot. Something like, "Hold that pose for me... *click-click-click*... Perfect. Thank you." I've not found anyone yet who can't manage to hold a pose for a few seconds at a time. No, it's not how I prefer to work with subjects, generally speaking, but sometimes you do what you have to do. If your subjects simply can't be still, even for a few seconds at a time, you probably need to find new subjects or hire actual models. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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