New Video: My Z8 And Z9 Autofocus Setup Guide (For Wildlife Photography)

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My question is whether it is possible to use the rear command dial to change AF mode. That is what works best for my camera set up.
You can switch the dials so that rear is AF area…that’s what I did and in combo with AF area/mode on the Record button and sticky buttons enabled that’s the quickest way to change…tap…rotate…tap shutter…done.
 
Yes I read what you posted and I responded "this is how the camera works" so you will have to adapt to the camera.

You can swap roles for the command dial and sub-command dial in which changes shutter speed and which changes aperture and the directions - but few other commands.

When you press the "Focus Mode Button" on the front left of the camera the Main Command Dial (the rear dail) is used to select between MF, AF-0S and AF-C; and the Sub-Command Dial (the front dial) is used to select which AF-mode you wish to use (there is a long list). HOWEVER - if you allocate Focus Mode to a spot in your iMenu then the Main Command Dial (the rear dail) is used to select the Af-Mode and the Sub-Command Dial (the front dial) is used to select the type of Subject Detection (OFF, Auto, human, etc).

Perhaps using the iMenu would address your "needs".
I take it that you don’t really know the answer to my question!!
 
Thanks Steve. It does not stick or at least when i use the settings I press my EV button and it's at zero or should I be checking somewhere else?
I'm not sure - I have a feeling I'm missing something (man, if I had the camera in hand I could figure it out in about five seconds). One thing is maybe we are talking about different things. If you set EV with RSF on, then it will turn off RSF - is that what you mean? Sorry, I'm just not following what's happening too well I guess.
 
My question is whether it is possible to use the rear command dial to change AF mode. That is what works best for my camera set up.
Yes, under f2 Custom controls (shooting) if you scroll past the normal back button control options you'll see an icon with a control wheel and curved arrows and the two control wheels will light up on the camera custom controls graphic. Select the control wheel customization and you have the option to swap the control wheels for Exposure setting (which I left alone and set to the default), Focus/AF-area mode selection and Sub-command dial zoom role.

The one it sounds like you're after is the middle choice (Focus/AF-area mode selection). Press the right side of the multi-selector to get into this setting and either the up or down on the multi-selector to reverse the dial mapping in this mode. That will put the Focus Mode (AF-S, AF-C, Manual if you have all of those enabled) on the front dial (sub-command) and the active Focus Area Mode on the rear dial.

If you do that and then press the Focus Mode switch on the far left of the camera or another button mapped to Focus Mode such as your video button then the rear dial will let you select the primary active Focus Area Mode such as Wide-Small, Wide-Large, Custom C1, Custom C2, Auto, etc.

[edit] I didn't see the final page of this thread, seems like you have it all sorted out...
 
Steve, thanks and I’m sure you could. When I’m setting RSF and choose which parameters and their respective values they all stick except EV or at least when I use the RSF DISP to choose that set of parameters the EV appears to revert to zero. The only way I know of confirming if EV is set to my choice, as I can see the others in my viewfinder is to press the EV button and it is at 0.0. I hope this is clearer.
 
One question that I might have missed in the book, do you program a button to quick switch between FX and DX? I had set my FN3 for that and use it a lot.
FWIW, and it's great for my type of shooting, I made the red video button the FX / DX toggle, since in photo still mode it has no function. Others have programmed the video button to change ISO... but hey, ISO is not film ISO, but electrical gain. For me Auto ISO is the default. It's like changing film on the fly.
 
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