Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today I'm going to do a quick video about autofocus settings on the M50.
My previous video where I went out in super cold weather...
You know, gloves are always an issue with touch screens.
I do have some gloves with the touch capability.
I didn't actually have these with me.
And they're still pretty thin.
It was very very cold.
But with the M50, you can use the touch screen, but you can also use the buttons.
Has a dedicated button which we'll go all over in this video.
Let's get started!
Alright, first off let's look at the buttons to adjust focus point and all of the focus settings.
First you have the SET / Q button right in the middle of this d-pad to select the main
autofocus mode.
Usually it's set to the automatic tracking mode.
Doesn't let you adjust where to... where it focuses.
It basically picks where the camera focuses.
And we have Zone AF and single point.
Let's just start with the single point.
So we're in there.
We have one single point to focus on.
See it's not going to work, err, it actually did focus a little bit...
But to adjust where that is you have to push this button on the side.
This button right here gets you into the focus settings.
You have a few different options with the buttons.
You can use the menu button to change the size.
You can also use the info button to re-center.
But you use the d-pad area to adjust the position.
At that point you can just hold the button down and focus.
But you can also hold this button down to re-center if you want.
Press it one more time to get into the mode again.
You can also re-center with the info button.
Let's go into the larger focus mode.
Let's move it around.
You can use the main dial on the top of the camera to zoom in.
You can mode it around with the d-pad.
And then you half-press the shutter to focus in that area.
Let's look for a spot that can focus...
So that's pretty good.
And then you press this again to exit out of that.
That's pretty much it for focus.
Gives you all the main focus controls with buttons which is very helpful with gloves
in situations like that where you can't use the touch screen.
So with the touch screen itself, it's extremely simple.
Just tap on the screen to focus where you want.
You can also go back into here and change the size of the focus point by
tapping on here...
You can also re-center like that.
Pretty much the same setup for the most part.
You can also zoom in with this little icon there.
You can scroll with your finger in this case.
Gives you a lot of options, ways to control the camera.
Of course to exit out...
You can actually exit out with the touch screen here as well.
So pretty much every setting, every way to adjust focus can be done with buttons or be
done with the touch screen.
Do a combination, really doesn't matter.
As far as I can tell on the M100 you can't setup any type of button configuration to
move the focus point.
On here you have to use the touch screen.
Now there is a sensitivity on both cameras for the touch screen.
You can adjust.
With the right gloves that would definitely be fine.
But again with the M100... probably not.
Another thing you can do.
It's maybe not super useful. But you can do it, is you go into the menu...
And you have your "my menu" area.
You can add different settings to this area.
So let's make a tab.
We have a free tab that we can add items to.
Let's go in here...
You can do this with the d-pad of course as well.
So let's select items to register.
You have to find in the list whatever you want to put in there.
So AF method is a good one.
Just go in there, add it.
Let's go back to the menu.
Go back one more.
You can see it's in here now.
So that gives you a quick way to adjust this without using the Q menu.
You can basically do whatever you want there.
Add different items.. sort them.. and all that.
Now, I wouldn't say it's extremely useful but it is there and it gives you more options
to change settings with the buttons or the touch screen.
So in that case you just go into the menu and then you got it right there.
So it's actually about the same really but...
Let's look at Zone AF.
It's basically the same as the single point.
Gives you all the different settings.
Just a little quicker because it's using the larger area to focus.
So in that case... boom.
Picks a whole different area to focus on.
Do the same thing like re-centering.
Moving it around.
Or holding the button down to recenter.
Zoom in as usual.
And then focus... A little different that time.
Still picks whatever area it decides to.
That was a quick look at the autofocus settings with the M50.
Both with touch and the buttons.
I do think the buttons work alright, but they are slower than the touch screen in most situations.
If you have the right gloves you can use the touch screen in cold conditions and such.
But if you don't, buttons are pretty sufficient.
So I hope you enjoyed this video.
I'm Scott of Photography Banzai.
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