John Navitsky
Well-known member
i've only played around with it a bit, but one thing i've noticed is when subject detection is turned on, it seems to want to "find" a subject more and thus not want to "fallback" and stick to non subjects.
i suspect this is the root of a lot of people's angst, they're used to when the camera doesn't find a subject, it sticks to the thing anyway. i notice if you flip off subject detection it works very much like it did before.
i suspect this is a net win and probably how they are making it "stickier" because it's less likely to go to fallback behavior so if the camera looses something momentarily, it's not as likely to just jump to anything, it's going to wait for a subject, but i can see how it can be disconcerting because we really want it to stick to the subject we have in our mind.
i'm guessing the key to success here might be to assign a button with a non subject detection af mode assigned in case you are struggling with a specific subject. in my case, i usually have single point assigned to l-fn, but i'm thinking of maybe switching that to 3d w/o subject detection.
i suspect this is the root of a lot of people's angst, they're used to when the camera doesn't find a subject, it sticks to the thing anyway. i notice if you flip off subject detection it works very much like it did before.
i suspect this is a net win and probably how they are making it "stickier" because it's less likely to go to fallback behavior so if the camera looses something momentarily, it's not as likely to just jump to anything, it's going to wait for a subject, but i can see how it can be disconcerting because we really want it to stick to the subject we have in our mind.
i'm guessing the key to success here might be to assign a button with a non subject detection af mode assigned in case you are struggling with a specific subject. in my case, i usually have single point assigned to l-fn, but i'm thinking of maybe switching that to 3d w/o subject detection.