Reset single AF point

[TheLaird]

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Was out for a lovely autumnal walk yesterday and was finding my focal point kept moving. I must have been touching the arrow keys somehow.

On other camera, I can double click the center button and the AF point returns to the center. Can the Q2 be setup same way?

[jps1]

On the Q3, just double-tap on the LCD screen.

[TheLaird]

Thanks but I have touch screen turned off. I think my big nose randomly alters everything if I have it on ... 

[YvonneS]

I have a left eye preference, so I’ve turned my LCD off too. But when I double tap on the screen while looking through the EVF, the focuspoint goes back to the middle!

Hope this works for you too!

[aspiring_autotelic]

@YvonneS Thanks so much for this tip! I have no idea how I missed this; was one of my gripes about the camera coming over from the Fujifilm system where it was mapped to a joystick press. 

[TheLaird]

16 hours ago, YvonneS said:

I have a left eye preference, so I’ve turned my LCD off too. But when I double tap on the screen while looking through the EVF, the focuspoint goes back to the middle!

Hope this works for you too!

Unfortunately it does not work for me (or at least on Q2). It would also mean taking the camera away from the eye and I prefer to be able to move focus point while still viewing the scene,

I also see you say left eye preference. After 15 years of photography, I have just thought about it and I use my left eye to look through the viewfinder. I had never considered it before.

 

[idusidusi]

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Double-clicks works on the Q1

[YvonneS]

Sorry to hear it doesn’t work with your Q2. Maybe in your answer there is one thing you might want to check to be sure. It's only working while looking through the EVF, not when I take my eye away from the camera….

(I don’t want to use my nose, just like you, for focussing and have the viewfinder set to extended, maybe that is a different setting that might help?)

 

Edited November 14, 2023 by YvonneS

[YvonneS]

16 hours ago, aspiring_autotelic said:

@YvonneS Thanks so much for this tip! I have no idea how I missed this; was one of my gripes about the camera coming over from the Fujifilm system where it was mapped to a joystick press. 

I come from a Fuji too, so I searched in the manual hoping to find the answer, and luckily it was there

[ianforber]

On 11/14/2023 at 9:38 AM, TheLaird said:

Unfortunately it does not work for me (or at least on Q2). It would also mean taking the camera away from the eye and I prefer to be able to move focus point while still viewing the scene,

I also see you say left eye preference. After 15 years of photography, I have just thought about it and I use my left eye to look through the viewfinder. I had never considered it before.

 

It works for me on my Q2. I have the rear screen switched off and just double tap while keeping my eye looking through the EVF. The taps don’t need to be at the centre of the rear screen, anywhere on the screen will move the focus point to the centre. 

[TheLaird]

Yes it works. I was in Manual Focus mode not Auto Focus.

Thanks

[Argie Bee]

Hmmm, I've been hacking away at settings but can't get this behavior to take hold as outlined in the manual on Pg. 83. Instead when I double tap on the screen the focus point goes to that area. [Setting are Single frame exposure, Field focus, Touch AF selected] Bug? Separately, when Touch AF is off and I use the joystick to move the focus point the double tap works to return the focus point to the center. 

[Le Chef]

Switch off touch focus if you want the double tap to work. Touch focus on means interprets touch on the screen as where you want the focus point to be, so double tap merely does that twice. If you’re not using touch focus the. Simply switch it off and double tap.

[Aram Langhans]

On 11/13/2023 at 9:36 AM, YvonneS said:

I have a left eye preference, so I’ve turned my LCD off too. But when I double tap on the screen while looking through the EVF, the focuspoint goes back to the middle!

Hope this works for you too!

Read this a while back and yesterday I actually had the opportunity to do it.  So I can confirm it does work on the Q3 with LCD off.  Thanks fo much for the tip.