Originally posted by Kunzite I would not recommend testing an unfamiliar feature at the real game anyway.
How does it fail though? At initial focus - you have to make sure it's correctly acquired initially, with the central point of the selected area? It fails to track the subject? It is confused if the target is briefly obscured by something else (and here, there's the AF hold setting to play with)?
I aim the camera at the player or group of players I want to photograph. I hit the back button to autofocus, I see the little red square in the viewfinder. I hit the shutter. I don't necessarily wait for focus confirmation, I just kind of feel the camera focusing and I take some pictures. With center-point that works reasonably well. With 9-point SEL, not so much.
I'm open to the idea I'm doing something wrong. But that technique works pretty well with the single center point.
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Originally posted by normhead With all cameras, using more focus points at least doubles focus acquisition time. Using multiple points you really have to wait and make sure you've locked focus before starting the shutter. If you shoot the way you do with single focus points, you're going to trip the shutter before it's acquired focus.
With AF.c I wait until I actually see the tracking working before I start the shutter sequence.
How do I know that the tracking is working? Also, is the proper technique to hold down the AF button during the whole sequence, or repeatedly hit it? I repeatedly hit it using back-button/AF-C/single-point and get good results. Is there a different method I should be using with multiple point SEL?