Nikon D6 Setting Guide Sports AF Edition - Page 16

Sports AF: Custom Settings, Continued, Focus using the default AF‑area mode., AF‑ON

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Sports AF: Custom Settings, Continued 4 Focus using the default AF-area mode. Press the shutter-release button halfway or press the AF‑ON button to focus using the default AF-area mode. In the case of auto-area AF, the camera will automatically detect the subject and choose the focus area. At the settings selected in this example, focus will track subject motion while the shutter-release button is pressed halfway or the AF‑ON button is pressed. 5 Switch AF-area modes. Hold the selected control (the Fn1 button) to switch to the AF-area mode selected in Step 3 (9-point dynamic-area AF). Because we selected [Auto] for Custom Setting a13 [Focus point persistence] in Step 1, the camera will focus on the subject in the current focus point using 9-point dynamic-area AF. Had we selected [Off], the camera would not have maintained focus on the subject in the point chosen by auto-area AF but would have instead switched to a different focus point. 16

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Sports AF: Custom Settings, Continued
4
Focus using the default AF‑area mode.
Press the shutter-release button halfway or press the
AF‑ON
button
to focus using the default AF-area mode. In the case of auto-area
AF, the camera will automatically detect the subject and choose the
focus area.
At the settings selected in this example, focus will track subject mo-
tion while the shutter-release button is pressed halfway or the
AF‑ON
button is pressed.
5
Switch AF‑area modes.
Hold the selected control (the
Fn1
button) to switch to the AF-ar-
ea mode selected in Step 3 (9-point dynamic-area AF). Because we
selected [
Auto
] for Custom Setting a13 [
Focus point persistence
]
in Step 1, the camera will focus on the subject in the current focus
point using 9-point dynamic-area AF.
Had we selected [
Off
], the camera would not have maintained focus
on the subject in the point chosen by auto-area AF but would have
instead switched to a different focus point.