![]() The next step to setting your camera to perform its best in the dynamic world of sports photography is to determine the focus point or focus areas that will be tracking your subject. With the camera set to AF-C while you hold the shutter button (or back-button focus) halfway and follow your subject in the viewfinder, the focus will also move with the subject and maintain focus on it. For the latest Nikon mirrorless cameras, such as the Nikon Z 7II Mirrorless Digital Camera, the control for these AF modes is in the menu system. To turn on the AF-C setting on most Nikon DSLRs, simply hold the AF button on the lower left side of the camera body and turn the main command dial until you read AF-C in the viewfinder or LCD monitor. Across a brand’s camera lineup, the more sophisticated cameras will provide more options for setting the focus area to be tracked, but even entry-level cameras, such as the Nikon D3500 DSLR and the Canon EOS Rebel S元 DSLR, offer continuous autofocus, designated “AF-C” in the Nikon and Sony ecosystems and “Continuous Servo or AI-Servo AF” on Canon cameras. ![]() I am primarily a Nikon DSLR photographer, and that is my frame of reference, although the basic idea is the same for all the major camera systems, and setting the autofocus to continuous tracking is quite simple. Will this technique increase your in-focus shots in the very difficult discipline of sports action photography? Most definitely. Are these technologies improving with every camera generation and firmware update? Yes. Does this work perfectly, all the time? No. If you keep your finger (half-depressed) on the shutter release (or on the back-button focus control), the camera will automatically and continuously track the subject and maintain focus. As your subject moves and you track through the viewfinder, the system calculates what the position of the subject will be based on its speed, size, distance, and direction of travel. Thank goodness, therefore, for continuous focus tracking, a blessing for sports photographers everywhere.Ĭontinuous tracking is an autofocus function that uses the predictive artificial intelligence of the camera’s processor to analyze moving subjects and to “predict” where they will move to maintain focus on the subject while shooting in continuous burst modes. Great photos, in any discipline, can result from infinite techniques, but in sports photography-at least in sports photojournalism-there is little room for the aesthete who chooses a slow approach or the kind that eschews the available camera functions that will increase the proverbial “hit rate.” In other words, sports photographers need to use all measures to get that decisive, well-composed, and most important, in-focus photograph.
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