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I have setup my user profiles to have different default focus modes.  For general use, spot mode and re-compose as required.  All the AF lenses with the possible exception of the 18 seem to have low enough field curvature that this method works well.  With the 18 if shooting a close-in subject that isn't near the center of the frame, I will actually move the focus spot rather than re-composing.  With all the other lenses, it doesn't seem to make a difference.  By all the others, I mean the 11-23, the 18-56, and the 35mm since those are the ones I own.

 

For action shots, I am still working with the focus tracking mode, but I get mixed results.  Tends to work well for subjects that stay vaguely in the same part of the frame, but it will often lose the subject for things moving across the frame in backlit situations in particular.  Still, it's good enough to be my default for "action", though this is certainly no sports camera.

 

If I am handing the camera off to someone else to use, I use the face detect mode.  Generally, if someone else is using the camera it's because they are photographing people, and face detect just defaults to multi-point if there are no faces in the frame.  Works fine about 90% of the time.

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