This is great Jaren, thank you. Just got my R1 a couple weeks ago, still have an R5 backup. I shoot wrestling (sad that BYU disbanded their team). If you do, or have, shot wrestling, is there anything particular to that sport that you might share? I learned a lot from this, and truly enjoy your presentation style. A lot of it I do already, but also some key things to implement in this new body.
Thanks for watching, I actually shot the last 2 seasons of our wrestling team when I was a student. If I was still covering wrestling I would definitely use Eye-AF and probably put the camera down on the ground and flip out the lcd screen to get floor level perspective shots of the action. You'll love the R1 and how it performs.
@@byuphoto I have tried eye-AF, but have found that it is far too inconsistent, because of the many faces/eyeballs in the background of the action on the mat. Giving it another shot with some of your suggestions tonight at PAST @ Nebraska dual.
Thank you for doing this! I use the smart-controller for AF and move the single point around. But I want to set it so when I full-press the smart-controller AF button I get the FULL AREA AF so I can just full-press in a panic and the camera will at least grab something. Haven't figured this out yet, but I'll watch this a couple more times to see if I can figure it out. Right now I'm using the * button and register-recall to accomplish this, but it ties up the register-recall so I can't use it for anything else.
@@byuphoto - Thanks so much! I set mine up on #4 (really no different than #3 once it's configured) so the full-press is "AF on detected subject" and this is exactly what I was looking for. I'm selective of my spot focus point with half-press, but can full-press to have the camera take over if needed. Next, I gotta go through your R1 FTP set up guide.
Thanks a lot!!! I just traded my R3 for two R1s. Migrating away from weddings after years and venturing into sports. I still have my trusty 1DXiii. BTW, what monitor are you using ontop of the stand on camera right?
If I use register/recall focus settings set the way I want them for sports, then enable action priority do my focus settings change? Can I use both at once?
So with setting AE LOCK button to Eye Detection AF as you do, will holding down the AE LOCK button auto focus on eyes only in/near a selected AF area, or will it automatically use Whole Area AF? And when using the AE LOCK button for Eye AF, when shooting fairly wide, such as with a 24-70 on a play along the baseline in a basketball game (where you have more than 1-2 people in the frame), do you run into a problem with the camera selecting the wrong person to focus on?
I believe that using Eye Detection AF automatically uses Whole Area AF. When there are multiple subject to choose from, it will start with the one closet to the AF point.
A major downside of high frequency anti-flicker is, when in shooting mode, you can only adjust the shutter speed by .1 increments. To change it by stops you need to menu dive.. That's a big hassle for me when shooting typically.
@@byuphoto There's a custom function called TV-step that makes it a bit faster-but not my much. You can assign it to a button, and while pressing that button, the camera goes into "assign frequency manually" mode where you can adjust the shutter speed by both .1 and 1/3 stop increments using the dials.
So with setting AE LOCK button to Eye Detection AF as you do, will holding down the AE LOCK button auto focus on eyes only in/near a selected AF area, or will it automatically use Whole Area AF? And when using the AE LOCK button for Eye AF, when shooting fairly wide, such as with a 24-70 on a play along the baseline in a basketball game (where you have more than 1-2 people in the frame), do you run into a problem with the camera selecting the wrong person to focus on?
It appears that using Eye Detection AF will automatically use Whole Area AF. When there are multiple people in the frame it will start with the one closest to the AF point, which is why we move the AF point with the multi-controller.
@@byuphoto Thank you. This channel is great, especially for sports photographers. I haven't found any other channel that goes into the depth and detail that you do.
Thank you for your time in explaining your setup. Very helpful
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Great video Thanks for taking the time to put this together👍
Great video!! Thank you so much for doing it.
Very good tutorial, thanks!
You're welcome!
Super Thanks! Very happy with your explanation Sports settings u use. Greeting Wiebe Netherlands
Thanks for watching!
This is great Jaren, thank you. Just got my R1 a couple weeks ago, still have an R5 backup. I shoot wrestling (sad that BYU disbanded their team). If you do, or have, shot wrestling, is there anything particular to that sport that you might share? I learned a lot from this, and truly enjoy your presentation style. A lot of it I do already, but also some key things to implement in this new body.
Thanks for watching, I actually shot the last 2 seasons of our wrestling team when I was a student. If I was still covering wrestling I would definitely use Eye-AF and probably put the camera down on the ground and flip out the lcd screen to get floor level perspective shots of the action. You'll love the R1 and how it performs.
@@byuphoto I have tried eye-AF, but have found that it is far too inconsistent, because of the many faces/eyeballs in the background of the action on the mat. Giving it another shot with some of your suggestions tonight at PAST @ Nebraska dual.
Thank you for doing this!
I use the smart-controller for AF and move the single point around. But I want to set it so when I full-press the smart-controller AF button I get the FULL AREA AF so I can just full-press in a panic and the camera will at least grab something. Haven't figured this out yet, but I'll watch this a couple more times to see if I can figure it out.
Right now I'm using the * button and register-recall to accomplish this, but it ties up the register-recall so I can't use it for anything else.
My settings at 27:36 are what you want to do. Try it out and let me know what you think.
@@byuphoto - Thanks so much! I set mine up on #4 (really no different than #3 once it's configured) so the full-press is "AF on detected subject" and this is exactly what I was looking for.
I'm selective of my spot focus point with half-press, but can full-press to have the camera take over if needed.
Next, I gotta go through your R1 FTP set up guide.
Thanks a lot!!! I just traded my R3 for two R1s. Migrating away from weddings after years and venturing into sports. I still have my trusty 1DXiii. BTW, what monitor are you using ontop of the stand on camera right?
Its a Ninja recording monitor, it allows me to capture what I see on my camera as we are going through the menu system.
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If I use register/recall focus settings set the way I want them for sports, then enable action priority do my focus settings change? Can I use both at once?
I just did a test with my R1 and when Action Priority is enabled it still works with my register/recall focus, so yes, you can use both at once.
So with setting AE LOCK button to Eye Detection AF as you do, will holding down the AE LOCK button auto focus on eyes only in/near a selected AF area, or will it automatically use Whole Area AF? And when using the AE LOCK button for Eye AF, when shooting fairly wide, such as with a 24-70 on a play along the baseline in a basketball game (where you have more than 1-2 people in the frame), do you run into a problem with the camera selecting the wrong person to focus on?
I believe that using Eye Detection AF automatically uses Whole Area AF. When there are multiple subject to choose from, it will start with the one closet to the AF point.
A major downside of high frequency anti-flicker is, when in shooting mode, you can only adjust the shutter speed by .1 increments. To change it by stops you need to menu dive.. That's a big hassle for me when shooting typically.
I would love to have a shortcut to speed that up.
@@byuphoto There's a custom function called TV-step that makes it a bit faster-but not my much. You can assign it to a button, and while pressing that button, the camera goes into "assign frequency manually" mode where you can adjust the shutter speed by both .1 and 1/3 stop increments using the dials.
So with setting AE LOCK button to Eye Detection AF as you do, will holding down the AE LOCK button auto focus on eyes only in/near a selected AF area, or will it automatically use Whole Area AF? And when using the AE LOCK button for Eye AF, when shooting fairly wide, such as with a 24-70 on a play along the baseline in a basketball game (where you have more than 1-2 people in the frame), do you run into a problem with the camera selecting the wrong person to focus on?
It appears that using Eye Detection AF will automatically use Whole Area AF. When there are multiple people in the frame it will start with the one closest to the AF point, which is why we move the AF point with the multi-controller.
@@byuphoto Thank you. This channel is great, especially for sports photographers. I haven't found any other channel that goes into the depth and detail that you do.