Any ideas about best video focus mode? I'm using the Wide Area AF choice, but panning the camera around is the pits, from all the seeking back and forth.
I know all the reasons that is very difficult, but little camcorders do much better. I know their tiny lens and sensor gets near infinite depth of field which hardly needs to focus - the DSLR cannot compete, it has much more focusing work to do. And I know contrast focusing is pitiful, but they both have that, and the D800 has such a faster processor. I guess a lot more pixels too, I don't know when focus is done. I know panning the camera around is a no-no, Hollywood goes to great lengths to minimize that.
But there must be a focusing technique better than I'm seeing? I'm just relying on Wide Area AF. Is there any logic that DX mode would help (reducing pixels?) It is subsampled anyway.
I know all the reasons that is very difficult, but little camcorders do much better. I know their tiny lens and sensor gets near infinite depth of field which hardly needs to focus - the DSLR cannot compete, it has much more focusing work to do. And I know contrast focusing is pitiful, but they both have that, and the D800 has such a faster processor. I guess a lot more pixels too, I don't know when focus is done. I know panning the camera around is a no-no, Hollywood goes to great lengths to minimize that.
But there must be a focusing technique better than I'm seeing? I'm just relying on Wide Area AF. Is there any logic that DX mode would help (reducing pixels?) It is subsampled anyway.