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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 06-03-2015, 09:00 PM  
Please teach me about the AF button
Posted By DeadJohn
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You don't need to press the AELock in the basic procedure.
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 06-03-2015, 02:43 PM  
Please teach me about the AF button
Posted By DeadJohn
Replies: 13
Views: 1,888
I highly recommend using the rear AF button and turning off the shutter half-press. It's a fantastic feature. Here's what I like about it with my K-5:
  • Focus-and-recompose. Press the AF once to focus, release, then recompose and press the shutter.

  • Focusing on small foreground objects is easier. Sometimes the camera has a tendency to lock onto the background and it takes a few AF tries to get the correct object. With a half press the camera tries to refocus every time and you repeat the AF pain each photo. With the rear AF, get focus correct once then take multiple images without refocusing.

  • Jumping between AF.C and AF.S doesn't require any setting changes. Tap the AF button to get AF.S. Hold the button to get AF.C.

  • Quickshift lenses. You can manually focus and not have to worry about AF kicking in when you press the shutter. There's no need to flip the focusing switch to MF.

If you make the change, it may feel a little unnatural until you adjust. Allow a few days of shooting so don't reprogram the camera just before an important photo event.
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