Canon R6 II AF Modes

[allankravitz]

what is the preferred af mode for general shooting? one-shot, AI focus, AI servo? I am using AI focus, shooting mostly travel and general photos, not sports or animals.

 

[JustUs7]

General can mean a lot. My set up:

First - this set up requires that you set “Whole Area Tracking Servo AF” to OFF - because if it’s on, it will override other settings.

Dual back button.

- AF-On mapped to whatever AF method is chosen (single point, spot, area, etc). It’ll pick up eyes within the AF point, but won’t chase outside the point (because the “OFF” setting above stops this behavior).

- * button mapped to whole area tracking with eye AF. Covers the whole screen. So any time I want to jump from a flower (AF-On) to a person with eye AF (*), I just switch buttons (this covers whole area tracking so we don’t need it ON for everything).

- Movie Record - does nothing for me in stills so I use it to toggle between One Shot and Servo.

- AF Area Point Select button - toggle between single point, spot, small area, large area, zones….

Portraits, one shot and * button.
Kids sports - Servo, Zone Tracking, AF-On.
Birds - Servo and *.
Waterfall, one shot and AF-On.

Tracking is usually Case 1 with Auto subject select.

After all that - I did build out some custom set ups for C1, C2, and C3. Usually a variation of the AF Case, and only people tracking instead of auto for subject to track. Two of my Custom set ups are for indoor and outdoor sports, respectively.

It reads kind of complicated, but now that I have it set up - in the field it’s as simple as pushing the left or right button for the AF I want. And occasionally switching between one shot and Servo.

I actually got it from a YouTuber. And not one of the popular ones. Just some guy doing videos at home that walked through the set up. I’ll see if I can find a link.

Set Up Custom Back Button Auto Focus on the Canon R6 Mark ii | Wildlife, Sports, Photo & Video Setup

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