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I am struggling a little bit with focus modes occasionally. My camera is the Sony a5000. Are there any tutorials that I can look at or can someone here give me some pointers into what focus modes I should be using? Options I have available are AF-S (currently using), AF-C, DMF and MF. There's also Focus area available to select. I currently use Flexible Spot M, but also have Wide, Zone and Centre available. I gather the meanings of these, but not really sure what is better/worse and in which circumstances you should be using each of these.
When using Flexible spot, it allows me to first choose the spot that I want the focus spot to be. This is fine, but then there must be an easy way to re-select a new focus spot without going into the menu again?
If using Centre, and imagining I am taking a photograph of a cat and I do not want the cat in the centre of the image. If I put the cat's eyes in the focus point on the centre, depress the shutter half way and then move the camera to where I want the shot to be taken from does the focus stay in the centre of the picture with the focus point or does the focus remain on the cat's face (now in the top right of the image)?
At the weekend I was away to the zoo and having all sorts of focus bothers and I could not figure out why. The only thing I could think of was the weather was quite damp and grey a lot of the time with light rain. I would take my picture then zoom in to find it just was not sharp. This was at 210mm usually.
Also at the weekend, I wanted to take a photo of an animal behind a fence. I got a lovely photo of the fence, with the shape of a wolf behind it. Is there a way to have the camera ignore the fence and take a photo of the whatever is beyond it? Photo shown below. High f stop value?
When using Flexible spot, it allows me to first choose the spot that I want the focus spot to be. This is fine, but then there must be an easy way to re-select a new focus spot without going into the menu again?
If using Centre, and imagining I am taking a photograph of a cat and I do not want the cat in the centre of the image. If I put the cat's eyes in the focus point on the centre, depress the shutter half way and then move the camera to where I want the shot to be taken from does the focus stay in the centre of the picture with the focus point or does the focus remain on the cat's face (now in the top right of the image)?
At the weekend I was away to the zoo and having all sorts of focus bothers and I could not figure out why. The only thing I could think of was the weather was quite damp and grey a lot of the time with light rain. I would take my picture then zoom in to find it just was not sharp. This was at 210mm usually.
Also at the weekend, I wanted to take a photo of an animal behind a fence. I got a lovely photo of the fence, with the shape of a wolf behind it. Is there a way to have the camera ignore the fence and take a photo of the whatever is beyond it? Photo shown below. High f stop value?