David Busch’s Sony Alpha a7R II/a7 II Guide to Digital Photography

If you’re shooting a player that you don’t expect to be surrounded by many other players, Lock-On AF and Center Lock-On AF can also be used if you’re able to select the subject you want to track at the start of each sequence.

I get some use out of a set of Fotodiox anodized aluminum 49-52mm, 52-55mm, 55-58mm, 58-62mm, 62-67mm, 67-72mm, and 72-77mm step-up rings, which can be used in combination for multiple “steps.” I also have the Fotodiox 77-72mm, 72-67mm, 67-62mm, 62-58mm, 58-55mm, 55-52mm, and 52-49mm step-down rings. These come in handy when I want to fit a particu

Focus can adjust during the burst if you set Focus Mode to Continuous AF and AEL w/Shutter to Off or Auto.

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with a color; as discussed below, that can be red, white, or yellow. The colored area shows you at a glance what will be very sharp if you take the photo at that moment.

Before you access the Memory item in the menu, make the desired settings in terms of camera operating mode, drive mode, ISO, white balance, exposure compensation, metering mode, and focus mode. Then, to save your current settings on your memory card in one of the M1, M2, M3, or M4 slots, just follow these steps:

At night, it’s much easier to achieve this effect with the 20- to 30-second exposures that are possible in low light without any filter.

For that reason, phase detection autofocus is more accurate with larger (wider) lens openings than with smaller lens openings, and, with the Sony a7 II series, may not work at all when the f/stop is smaller than f/8 (Sony says f/9 or smaller). Obviously, the “opposite” edges of the lens opening are farther apart with a lens having an f/2.8 maximum

At around $1,350, you can afford this lens, and if you shoot a lot of wide-angle images, you can’t afford not to have it.

Center Lock-On AF Options: On, Off Default: Off My preference: Off This setting, the first in the a7R II’s Camera Settings 7 menu (shown in Figure 3.19), tells the camera to detect a subject positioned in the center of the frame and then adjust focus as the camera tracks its movement. A pair of white boxes appear in the EVF and LCD monitor. Move th