Just sharing my thoughts on handling the X-E2. I feel this might help other users. This is long, but indulge me. Back-button Focusing on the X-E2 Over the past week, I learned a new focusing technique on my X-E2 called Back-button Focusing (Lets abbreviate it to BBF). Though this technique may have around for a while, I feel a lot dont know about it. For those that are not familiar, BBF involves disabling the focus lock when you half-press the shutter. Focus is acquired instead by pressing the AF-L button. Heres a link to video by Tony Northrup that explains it quite well. m.youtube/watch?v=8PN9R0D3pF0 See Photo1 for a sample photo using BBF. I was a guest at a wedding and I took a photo of the couple dancing. To setup BBF in 3 easy steps: 1. Go to SHOOTING MENU No.4 > AF-LOCK MODE 2. Select AF LOCK ONLY 3. Select M for Manual Focus on the MCS switch at the front of the camera. One huge benefit of this setup is that since your using Auto-Focus while in Manual-Focus mode (crazy, I know). Your preferred MF aide is visible to you. In my case, I see the red focus-peaking highlights in the focus-locked area. I get immediate confirmation that I locked on properly on the right subject. Much better than a highlighted green box. The thing I like most is that, if for whatever reason I want to shift to front-button focusing (FBF), I just flick the MCS switch to either C for Continuous or S for Single and Im good to go. In Tony Northrups video above, he suggests switching to full-auto to quickly get back to FBF. This was especially useful for me because, as a guest, I sometimes hand my camera to somebody to take a picture of me. Check out Photo2. In this case, my Face Detect AF was previously turned on so that when I switch the MCS to S, it locks on to a face. In Photo3, I switched the MCS to C as the bride and the groom were in their recessional. Again, since I had my Face Detect AF on, it locked on to the brides face. Because I shoot mainly in Aperture Priority, I just quickly stopped down my aperture (knowing it will decrease my shutter speed) with a quick turn on my lens ring, dropped my camera near the aisle and snapped. Quick and easy but maintaining full control of the image taking process. I hope this can prove educational to one of you and help you enjoy the craft a little more.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:14:37 +0000
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