What if user is wearing glasses (corrective lenses, not sunglasses), Does that affect the eye following?
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Canon may reserve it for FF MILCs.YES YES YES, bring it on! The one and only truly intuitive way to control an AF-system.
Works like a charm on my old Elan 7e. A 2019-worthy new implementation in mirrorfree cameras should be absolutely fantastic. Now with a gazillion of AF-points over 100% of frame. Brilliant. Can't wait to see it in EOS M5 Mk. II and/or M50 Mk. II.
What if user is wearing glasses (corrective lenses, not sunglasses), Does that affect the eye following?
Canon may reserve it for FF MILCs.
Neat!
To be honest, while I feel like I'd be able to keep my eye on target to direct focusing, I wonder how accurate my eye movement would be with a moving target. With so many focusing points I'd bet it would be difficult to keep your eye on a small subject and have it hold focus. I suspect the selection might have to just assess which subject you're trying to focus on and have the camera make the more accurate focus adjustment from there - like a focusing hand-off. I.e. I look at a face, hit focus, and the camera performs and holds eye tracking on that face. That could be a killer feature for sports/wildlife where I could use eye tracking to select a subject and have the camera hold it from there among other possible subjects. Not that I do a lot of that kind of photography, but I'd suspect that would be attractive to a lot of buyers.
Canon may reserve it for FF MILCs.
Canon might do that. But, why would it?Canon may reserve it for FF MILCs.
Exactly my thoughts. Not necessarily a focus point selector, but a subject selector - the photographer's eye basically tells the camera what subject he/she is trying to focus on, and the camera holds that focus using the focusing technology we already have in mirrorless cameras. I could see that being a huge asset when there are a lot of potential subjects in frame where the camera has a hard time finding the one you want. For instance, trying to photograph moving action where there are a lot of faces in the frame, you could potentially just look at the face you want to select it, and let the camera hold that focus while you look around to set the composition or check the edges of the frame. Maybe a pipe dream, but that would surely be faster than a joystick or touch to focus on the screen while looking through a viewfinder.I could see this working well with eye AF - for instance the camera focuses via eye AF which would select the closest eye, and by looking at the eye you want in focus, eye AF would jump to that eye.
I use my nose on the touch-screen for AF selection. You could use the eye at the same time for exposure. Or vice versa, eye for AF point and nose for exposure.Also how about binocular sensors. Use right eye for focus point and left eye for exposure point.
This is cool, but what happens if you're taking a photo of your wife and pretty girl strolls by. There needs to be a quick delete function.