Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 5:28 PM -0400 7/25/06, Jeff Moore wrote:
>but... wasn't there something out from Canon awhile ago, some freaky
>science-fiction EOS feature where it'd watch where your eyeball was
>pointing in the frame and choose AF point accordingly? I always wondered
>if something like that could work in a reliable, industrial-strength
>way.
>
>I don't seem to see that feature any more -- I wonder if that's because
>it never quite worked as hoped, or because Canon are convinced that the
>future lies in a swarm-of-bugs quantity of automagical AF points, with
>focus point chosen by the camera's Very Clever Algorithms, no awkward
>human interaction required?
It was on a number of film bodies. One of the best things that Canon
could do for me is put the EOS3 viewfinder, with the ECF (Eye control
focus) on the 5D. The autofocus is generally the same as on the 1
series bodies, plus eye-control. Normally you can set it to 45 focus
points, but I had mine set to 11. That way it responded very quickly,
and I knew where the focus points were. Autofocus that truly worked!
The least useable is the default mode, where the camera decides where
to focus. Next best is center point, with recomposing or manual touch
up. Best is the ECF configured as above.
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