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Q&A Forum: October 22 (Patreon)

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2022-09-30 23:00:00
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Please ask all of your photography questions during the month of October 2022 using this forum. When replying to a post that is more than three days old it would help me enormously if you start a new discussion thread as it will be easier for me to find your question.

IMPORTANT NOTE > I will be putting in some long days on a Harley for the first week of October (raising money for the War Child charity) so response times may be longer than normal until I get back to Australia on October 10th.
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PLEASE NOTE > Questions asked via the Patreon Message service will only be answered by my Admin Staff. The current Q&A forum always appears directly below the banner image of the orange Tori Gates in Japan (when using a web browser on a computer).

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It is easier to navigate/find the Patron resources when using a web browswer rather than the Patreon app.

Forum Image: Hoover Dam Lookout (bridge still under construction) 36°0'49" N 114°43'56" W (the camera was equipped with GPS).
Captured on the 28th September 2009 with the Sony A700 + DT 16-80 F3.5-4.5 ZA (my second Sony DSLR after the original A100). I was using Sony DSLRs for six years (as well as Nikon cameras) before I was appointed as a Sony Ambassador.

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Ron Reynolds

Hi Mark. I expect that I know the answer, but I'll try anyway. I've been taking pictures of birds; recently owls. They roost on a branch, then eventually fly in between the small trees; so I need to use tracking. I can focus on the eyes, with tracking. Then, holding the shutter half pressed, I move the camera slightly to point where I think the bird will fly (which I learned from one of your videos). As long as I half press the shutter, this works. But inevitably, I full press and get a burst of images of a stationary bird... Or I get tired and let it go just before the bird takes flight. What I'd like is to have something like back button focus, but not with a specific distance, but with a tracked object. Then I could compose and fire on movement. But I don't think this is doable, is it?

Mark Galer
>>95555374

On some cameras you can change the function of the AF-On button to AF-On + Tracking. if you go into the customise section of the Menu (found in the Setup menu on the latest cameras such as the A7IV and A1) and then look to assign a new custom function for the Af-Ob button.

Ron Reynolds

I've done that, and it is sometimes useful. But I think that it is only in effect while the shutter is half pressed.

Mark Galer
>>95598072

It should remain tracking while the AF-ON button is fully depressed, i.e. it is independent of the shutter release button. I jut noticed you started this discussion in the October forum. If you have a subsequent question can you move it the the current November Q&A forum please (the pinned post directly below the banner image on the landing page). Thanks.