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Running Dog (Patreon)

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2020-01-23 05:47:38
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I walked down to my local beach a few nights ago and captured these images of a dog running towards me in chase of his ball. I captured these images using the A6600 and E 70-350 F.4.5-6.3 G OSS lens. Three of the images were captured at 350mm focal range (a full-frame equivalent of 525mm). The one where he was side on was captured at 277mm. The camera captured all of these images sharp or pin sharp. This is not, however, always the case with the A6000 series cameras. If a high hit rate is your number one priority when shooting fast action sports I would recommend the A9 or A9II camera.

Camera Settings were 1/2000 second at f/6.3, ISO 400

Aperture priority: f/6.3, AF-C, Drive Mode: Continuous Hi, AF Tracking: Zone, ISO Auto Min SS: 1/2000 second

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Steve Jarrell

What was your focus mode for these shots? For the A9 have you found any difference in initial focus lock-on between the "normal" modes and the tracking modes? ie Zone vs Tracking Zone? Thanks! Steve

Mark Galer

Focus Mode and Focus area is listed in the camera settings. Focus Mode is always AF-C (Continuous AF) as I rarely use AF-S except for landscapes. Focus Area is a variable depending on what is unfolding. I outline my choices for these AF Areas in my movie AF Area (if you do any kind of work with moving subjects this is a 'must-see' movie). Lock-on is a terminology that doesn't appear on any of my current cameras as it has been replaced with the superior AF Tracking which now uses Texture as an additional algorithm. This makes the AF tracking stickier and less likely to jump to a nearby subject. My choice of AF area is always to start wide, and only move to smaller AF areas is there are obstacles nearer than the primary subject. I would typically only use one of the Lock-on options on my A7RIII or the A9 (prior to the firmware upgrade in 2019) if the subject was likely to travel behind obstacles as I was tracking the subject. With the newer AF Tracking I tend to just choose AF Tracking: Wide, Zone or Expand Flexible Spot - I cycle between these options very quickly as it is assigned to my C2 key and I make the change while my eye is at the Finder(I don't lower the camera to make the change). The A6600 has a C1 and C2 key on top of the camera which is nice, as this matches my custom button layout for the A9 and A7RIV cameras.

Mary Veronica Kampen Laskowski

So happy you have this group Mark for public learning. Totally slipped my mind about using C1 and C2.

Betty Berg
>>31608945

I'm on the a9 Focus Area struggle bus... Can you explain how the AF Tracking is using Texture as an additional algorithm? I took a picture of my son in our mudroom. I was shooting through the doorway. I was on Wide. My camera decided to focus on the wall horizontal to the doorway that I was shooting thru. I missed the shot.

Betty Berg

I need to remember that about the algorithms. That’s what throw me off - and then I get mad and end up on Flexible Spot. Love the tip to be able to switch Focus Area without looking... I must have read this somewhere on your tutorials when I switched to Sony in 2018. It took about 6 months, and I still practice getting my settings without looking.

Betty Berg

Mark, I put all this information to practice this morning and it worked well... subject (son snow-blowing driveway) was moving, so right there I knew I wanted Tracking. Snowblower was in front on subject, so I ruled out Tracking: Wide so that Wide wouldn’t pick the snowblower if face wasn’t visible from blowing snow. Picked Tracking Zone and moved the Zone so that Face Detect would pick up. No issues. 👍🏻 This got me thinking about how lens choice maybe plays a part as well, correct? I was at 24mm... so snow blower was visible in the frame. If, say, I had been at 85 and nothing in front of my son was in the frame, Tracking Wide might have worked, yes?

Mark Galer
>>32089043

Excellent 😀 and your observation about choice of lens is correct. For a week or two you may walk around thinking what AF area would I pick to photograph this (even when you don’t have the camera wth you) but slowly the brain is able to start automating the process so that it becomes an almost subconscious process.