Originally posted by Snapi So my question is: Is it me and my lack of experience, or there is really no way around this?
When you're in Select focus point mode, you can switch off focus point selection by pushing and
holding OK button for 1 sec. Page 103 in the manual.
Then you can use 4 way controller to change settings and your focus point stays at the last selected position. To be able to change it again, just press ok button (no need to hold it this time).
Alternatively, you can assign RAW/Fx button to AF active area. This allows you to turn focus point selection on/off with RAW/Fx button and also use wheels to change focus point while it's on. But I found for me, ok button works just fine, even though there's 1 sec wait.