Thanks Erik. Very informative, well explained and presented video. Our rugby league season starts this coming Sunday and I propose customising my AF-On & AEL buttons according to your instructions. I tend to shoot Sport In Aperture mode, ISO Min SS in ISO Auto at 1/000, or even 1/500, using the shutter set to Relesse. I guess if it works for weddings, it should work for fast moving and very pretty rugby players 😄 Thanks agai Eric. Will try and let you know how it goes 👍🙁
nice tuto. For me, face and eye priority would mean that wherever is my spot, it jumps on the eye. But, as you explain, spot must enter the square on face to make it work. This is not priority at all !!! Eye AF is amazing, even in BBF AFON, blur EVF, pressing eye af (i put on focus hold button of my 24-70gm2) jumps on the eye wherever is my spot. Why did sony made two different "eye priority" ? the face/eye priorit is just to draw a box around a face so i am confident that if i press eye af, it will jump on an eye. Without face priority i would have a doubt pressing eye af.
I use the Eye AF on wide focus mode. Because if the subject leaves the red box area you have then Eye AF no longer works. With wide mode it will track theyre eye throughout the whole screen.
@@erikdurnall9585 Will do. It was definitely a learning experience. That event. I took over 1800 photos which was a surprise to me. It's been a chore sorting through them
Thank you very much Erik. That was very useful indeed. Also have you noticed that there's a redundant menu item 'Eye AF on/off' and 'Eye AF sel' on the same menu when you are in dial customize menu?
You’re welcome! I think for those two menu items, one is a toggle command and the other is switch. Another function similar in that way is Silent Shooting and Electronic shutter.. One is a toggle and the other is a submenu switch.
do you put face priority off in situations where a lot of people are in the frame, but you only want to focus on the bride or on the singer in a band? don't you loose focus of your main character if you left it on?
Hi, great info! Do you have it listed anywhere how to find these settings and change them? I appreciate the dat file, but prefer to learn the menu options so I know how to change them later if needed. Thanks!
Unfortunately it would be an enormous undertaking to write out or even demonstrate all the changes and functions in their entirety. I’m hoping to get information from people who have questions about specific functions and features and how to access or change them. I will do my best to make a more detailed explanation of the advance functions, but if you have any questions about specific things, I can do my best to answer them for you.
Eye priority vs. Eye only? I'm still confused. But I wanted to ask, since I'm more interested in video, if I were to set the camera on a gimbal, does EyeAF require I hold down a button for it to track the person's eye? Or can you I just set EyeAF to on and wide area focus it, and it'll track continuously without having to hold a button down?
Hey Erik, I'm speaking at an event in Princeton this summer and want to hire a local photographer to take some good photos of me speaking. Is there an email where I can contact you? Thanks!
@@erikdurnall9585 oh dear... I only have the A7R3 and that feature is apparently not available on my camera :( The only option available is that it will focus on the nearest eye apparently.
Thank you Eric Video was very helpful.
Great video, followed you instantly!
Thanks Erik.
Very informative, well explained and presented video. Our rugby league season starts this coming Sunday and I propose customising my AF-On & AEL buttons according to your instructions.
I tend to shoot Sport In Aperture mode, ISO Min SS in ISO Auto at 1/000, or even 1/500, using the shutter set to Relesse. I guess if it works for weddings, it should work for fast moving and very pretty rugby players 😄
Thanks agai Eric. Will try and let you know how it goes 👍🙁
You’re welcome! Best of luck at the match!
This is DEADLY! how come you only 735 subs... you should have way more. Thanks very much.
Great informative video Erik, just what I was looking for. Also, fantastic portfolio of work on your website👌
Thanks man, this is super useful information.
You’re welcome!
nice tuto. For me, face and eye priority would mean that wherever is my spot, it jumps on the eye. But, as you explain, spot must enter the square on face to make it work. This is not priority at all !!! Eye AF is amazing, even in BBF AFON, blur EVF, pressing eye af (i put on focus hold button of my 24-70gm2) jumps on the eye wherever is my spot. Why did sony made two different "eye priority" ? the face/eye priorit is just to draw a box around a face so i am confident that if i press eye af, it will jump on an eye. Without face priority i would have a doubt pressing eye af.
I explain the two different eye AF functions in greater depth in my deep dive video
czcams.com/video/j4mKorMlzSk/video.html
I use the Eye AF on wide focus mode. Because if the subject leaves the red box area you have then Eye AF no longer works. With wide mode it will track theyre eye throughout the whole screen.
That is how back button tracking works. I demonstrate that in this video.
Every Sony a7iv does have big eye af. Eyeball doesn't get any tack Sharp in AF-C and AF-S mode.
My shots are all perfectly sharp.
I shot my first event over the past weekend and looking through the photos. I've missed focus on so many of them. Hence why I'm here.
Highly recommended checking out my AF settings deep dive video as well czcams.com/video/j4mKorMlzSk/video.html
@@erikdurnall9585 Will do. It was definitely a learning experience. That event. I took over 1800 photos which was a surprise to me. It's been a chore sorting through them
Great video, I subscribed to the channel
hi, can you do multiple consecutive shots and test it on photo then pixel peep it in post to see the eye af
Exactly
I have taken numerous continuous shots are they are perfectly in focus. Thanks!
Thank you very much Erik. That was very useful indeed. Also have you noticed that there's a redundant menu item 'Eye AF on/off' and 'Eye AF sel' on the same menu when you are in dial customize menu?
You’re welcome! I think for those two menu items, one is a toggle command and the other is switch. Another function similar in that way is Silent Shooting and Electronic shutter.. One is a toggle and the other is a submenu switch.
do you put face priority off in situations where a lot of people are in the frame, but you only want to focus on the bride or on the singer in a band? don't you loose focus of your main character if you left it on?
Let say u shooting 6 people which focus do u use and get everyone in focus
Watched this a few times and am not getting the 2 lines you mention in the first third of the video in connection with iso.
Hi, great info! Do you have it listed anywhere how to find these settings and change them? I appreciate the dat file, but prefer to learn the menu options so I know how to change them later if needed. Thanks!
Unfortunately it would be an enormous undertaking to write out or even demonstrate all the changes and functions in their entirety. I’m hoping to get information from people who have questions about specific functions and features and how to access or change them. I will do my best to make a more detailed explanation of the advance functions, but if you have any questions about specific things, I can do my best to answer them for you.
Say u shooting 6 people in a wedding, what focus point do u use to get everyone in focus with a74?
Erik,why is your white balance volume set to G1? Is for balance skin tone or something else?Thanks
It’s just the custom WB set using a card.
Eye priority vs. Eye only? I'm still confused.
But I wanted to ask, since I'm more interested in video, if I were to set the camera on a gimbal, does EyeAF require I hold down a button for it to track the person's eye? Or can you I just set EyeAF to on and wide area focus it, and it'll track continuously without having to hold a button down?
Hey Erik, I'm speaking at an event in Princeton this summer and want to hire a local photographer to take some good photos of me speaking. Is there an email where I can contact you? Thanks!
Would love to see the setting so i can copy whaterver i need, instead of using your setting file that overrides mine.
you can see a complete walkthrough of my settings here czcams.com/video/j4mKorMlzSk/video.html
@@erikdurnall9585 awesome! Thanks alot
How do you go about choosing which eye to focus on? Is that something you can do?
In my settings, I have that option set to my lens button. It’s called “Right/Left Eye Select”
@@erikdurnall9585 oh dear... I only have the A7R3 and that feature is apparently not available on my camera :(
The only option available is that it will focus on the nearest eye apparently.
@@juki009 yes, unfortunately the A7RIII does not have the eye select feature.
@@erikdurnall9585 thanks for confirming!