fcotterill
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Welcome to this forumBut you still have to fiddle with the AF/MF switch... but regardless of how you use MF, AF is always going to be faster.
The AF-Near/AF-Far setup seems so obvious once you try it. I don't understand why so many photographers are completely befuddled by the concept.
If I understand the Lumix setup, the closest option in Nikon ILCs is to assign 2 buttons to save and recall a preset point of focus. To best of my knowledge, this was originally designed for sports photography with Nikon's telephotos with AF in the SLRs and then DSLRs....
And it's taken on a wider usage in the Nikon Z focusing system, particularly if the camera AF clings to the background and cannot 'see' the much closer subject. So it's very useful with a Z9 to recover focus instantly on a close subject.... muscle memory permitting that is.
There are different ways of doing this on Z versus F mount lenses, and only the f mount telephotos have the 3 position switch that must be set to the memory recall position.
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