Menu Position MENU --> 
3 -->Focus Area
What it Does Lets you decide which of 6 focusing areas to use.
Recommended Setting It all depends. My standard setting is either Wide or Lock-On AF Wide.
Menu Position MENU --> 3 -->Focus Area
What it Does Lets you decide which of 6 focusing areas to use.
Recommended Setting It all depends. My standard setting is either Wide or Lock-On AF Wide.
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Figure 6-21: The camera has 425 individual AF points baked right into the sensor. When set to “Wide” you’re giving the camera permission to guess which one(s) to use. Generally it will focus on whatever’s closest, unless a face was detected. |
Basically “Wide” means the camera gets to decide where the subject is and therefore what to focus on. I find that this, combined with Face Detection, successfully identifies my intended subject 99% of the time.
When your AF area is set to Wide and the camera finds a subject, it will briefly illuminate (in green) all of the AF points in which it finds something in focus.
TIP: If you really want a good feel for how small the phase-detect AF points really are, set this mode to "Wide" (Section 6.15.6), set Focus Mode to AF-C, and set MENU --> |
3 --> Disp. Cont. AF Area = ON