VIDEO AF issues

[Danillness]

Hello

I’ve bought xt3 month and changed my a6400

everything is fantastic except for one thing, autofocus 

why there is only two option, focus in a small square and multi, which focus only in a center?

stills have all needed zones, wide or large zone 

but video doesn’t.. Sony can autofocus all the way the frame and i can’t think about it 

but now I have to put everything in center to make it in focus 

is there any solution to make wide video autofocus?

maybe fuji make some firmware or it is a hardware problem 

can’t understand why nobody cares about it ( no info in the internet)

 

Edited August 23, 2020 by Danillness

[jerryy]

Something seems off in what you are describing. Look in the manual for "Focus Area" and "Movie AF Mode", they are next to each other in the manual. You can set the area, etc.

[Danillness]

I looked everywhere 

there is In movie af mode only “multi” and “ area” 

when “multi” is set there nothing I can do with focus area 

when “Area” I can move a small square and that is all!!(which I can move by touchscreen,so this menu is useless)

i even can’t make it larger...

it is very frustrating that af works good but only in center of the frame or small square...

 

Edited August 23, 2020 by Danillness

[jerryy]

The multi setting is used when you want the camera to automatically pick the focus point.

The area setting lets you move the focus point around so that either the camera auto focuses from within this area or you manually focus from within this area. True enough that the area size cannot be adjusted, so I can understand that being aggravating.

[Danillness]

I understand it

so stupid that it’s called “multi” but it focus only in center 

They should rename it in center zone 

I suppose there is no solution or..?

cannot accept the fact that stills have a lot of function but movies just s***t multi-center...

have to always use touchscreen to focus the nearest person that is not in center 

 

 

[jerryy]

I think some of this is the newness of applying still photography techniques to video photography.

Not that long ago, a lot of video cameras worked by having the ‘focus point’ in the middle of the lens and the operator had to use various combinations of zooming and focus ring adjustments to get the apparent focus to change from one person to the next. Now it is easier, but still needs some improvement.