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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 666586" data-attributes="member: 9240">Not accusing anyone of anything, I'm just trying to stamp out the misconception that dynamic-area autofocus is not "single-point", mainly because Nikon specifically labels one of the options in available in AF-C as just that but they all allow the selection of only one point. This leads people (like me until I really got it) to believe that selecting something other than S in would cause the camera to vary the AF point as it saw fit and not work with what I selected, therefore adopting the idea that it was somehow "multi-point" and not bothering to understand the concept (Canon's use of "multi-point" further exacerbating the misunderstanding).As with everything camera related, how you set things personally depend a lot on how you shoot. I would state unequivocally that well less than 1% of my wildlife shots are taken with a tripod, so my choices are greatly influenced by the fact that I'm handholding long glass with no specific target in mind until it comes to me, usually faster and more erratically than I could ever follow with a tripod head. That means 153 dynamic focus points on my D500, which does cause the point to migrate occasionally (something I make up for shooting at f7.1 or f8) and me to lose entire parts of larger birds as it gets very close or flies immediately overhead (something I make up for by shooting at 10fps in a calculated spray and pray methodology). For larger wildlife, waterfowl, and the like the ability to sweep a Gimbal head makes fewer focus points easier to deal with particularly when sweeping strictly horizontally with only minor up/down movement. The important thing to understand is how each combination of settings plays with each situation.</blockquote>

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