Sony ILCE-9 Help Guide Printable PDF - Page 397

Help Guide Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera ILCE-9 α9 Center Lock­on AF When you press the center of the control wheel, the camera detects the subject positioned in the center of the screen and continues to track the subject. 1 MENU → (Camera Settings1) → [Center Lock-on AF] → [On]. 2 Align the target frame (A) over the subject and press the center of the control wheel. Press the center again to stop tracking. 3 Press the shutter button fully down to shoot the image. Hi n t If you assign the [Focus Standard] function to the desired key using [Custom Key(Shoot.)], you can activate [Center Lock-on AF] by pressing the key when [Center Lock-on AF] is set to [On] and [Focus Area] is set to [Wide] or [Center]. You can also detect the subject again by pressing the key to which [Focus Standard] is assigned. You can select the subject to be tracked by touch operation when shooting using the monitor. Set [Touch Operation] to [On]. Note The [Center Lock-on AF] function may not function very well in the following situations: The subject is moving too quickly. The subject is too small, or too large. The contrast between the subject and the background is poor. It is dark. The ambient light changes. Lock-on AF does not work in the following situations: When shooting in Manual Focus mode. When using the digital zoom When [ Record Setting] is set to [120p]/[100p]. When [ Frame Rate] is set to [120fps]/[100fps]. 4-691-927-11(1) Copyright 2017 Sony Corporation 397