Understanding Focus Area on Sony Mirrorless Cameras

In this video, Gary Fong discusses the different Auto Focus settings on your Sony Mirrorless camera.
Focus Mode gives you many options such as freezing focus before shooting or constantly measure focusing as you're shooting.
Focus Area Wide means all of the sensor points. The number of auto focus points will vary depending on your camera. This is a great feature on the Sony Mirrorless cameras because it offers a wide area of coverage for focusing and tracking your moving subject.
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[@Prof.SchulzeSternberg]

the sweet model trying her very best to not laugh while the professor is trying to understand his camera :-D

[@BjornIn1979]

Who are we kidding Gary, Face Recognition ON or OFF! Katie is just too damn beautiful for your camera to ever stop focusing on!

[@stephenroberts8181]

Gary is brilliant, and I've learnt lots from his videos. He talks in a manor and pace that is easy to follow

[@RickandTheRailJoints]

You are the BEST Gary!!! Thanks I just purchased the Sony RX100iv and it is amazing!!! With your tutorials I am even more liking this smart camera.

[@MidsierramusingBlogspot]

Gary, What I like about your video is that you are articulate without a script in front of you and you get right to the instruction without the usual clutter chatter.

[@number1chiefROKKA]

I have found that your videos now make up the bulk of all my sony a6000 videos. for as popular as this camera is there are not a lot of people who explore its vasts capabilities like you. Thanks for going over real-world situations with it. this walk through of the focus features it was extremely helpful. much appreciated.

[@thesaint1517]

Gary. Excellent detailed explanation on focusing. I just got the A7iii coming from Nikon for many years and I am at this learning curve with this fantastic camera. Focusing is the key to excellence vs mediocre and you have made it easier for me to customize my settings. I just subscribed and looking forward to seeing more.

[@Jaytee1o4]

Thanks Gary! Your videos are always so helpful!

[@puredodee]

Cool video my friend! I've just switched to Sony after 30 odd years with a canon and this video is just what I've been looking for, thanks again!

[@haroldmyers]

Thanks for the great videos. I really appreciate learning about focus areas and focus modes. I just moved up from an RX100 to and RX100 IV and your videos are a great help. I like your style of explaining the features.

[@Tommygardh]

Thank you so much for showing subject locking! Amazing how well that works! Makes my life easier!! 👏🏻😊

[@chavakano54]

Excellent tutorial and absolutely beautiful model, thanks Gary.

[@jackiewatsonfitness3695]

thank you. I just purchased this camera, and right now I need it to do all of the work for me. I was trying to find out the difference between intelligent auto and superior auto. Yours was the first explanation I understood!

[@DrKjjj]

You explained it in very detail. I have stoped searching about focus area focus mode after this video. Thank you Guru!

[@SuperDigitalMe]

I have a a6300 and a A7R2 thanks to you :) Amazing systems and i would call it revolutionary!

[@fenraven]

Informative video. Thanks. I just purchased this camera, and I'm excited to use these features. :)

[@DavidZalka]

Awesome and helpful tutorial Gary! Thanks!

[@IsaiahMarcellino]

I like that all these people are here for the camera settings and they all comment on how pretty the model is haha

[@BreakyourboundariesTv]

This was super helpful...thanks for the all the autofocus tips!

[@AndreyPermitin]

Thank you for this video! Very helpful. And the model is very beautiful, what a pleasure to whatch )

[@adirahic]

Awesome video. So many great tips. I have Sony a5100 and have trouble understanding all the options. But this really helps. Thank you!

[@GilbertTV]

great video Gary you explain things so well

[@bobvila1010]

Très bon video et très bien expliqué! Good Job!!

[@unmistakablychinese6719]

The best video explaining Sony camera focus I've ever watched. Thank you very much!

[@RickardsGarage]

Hi Gary! Thanks for a great explanation on Autofocus.

[@RobertUWL]

beautiful model ! thanks for the amazing tipps on my sony !

[@Celestialrob]

Gary, this is outstanding! I just forwarded to a friend who is thinking about buying a Sony! I have the a6000 and a7rii.

[@duytranthanh86]

Thank you Gary, very nice and useful video

[@jameskrause1708]

Very useful video. Well done, and thank you!

[@notrom-thesilencer7993]

this is a great video, now i know more about those focus area. beautiful model too. looking forward for more video for sony alpha series. im using a5000 right now for my 1st camera into photography

[@rollingrecords9019]

Love this video very well done brother!

[@schurrwrestlr125]

Great tutorial Gary!

[@JasonSputnik]

Excellent tutorial, thumbs up!

[@graphguy]

Fantastic comprehensive lessons.

[@AdirraBG]

Very useful review, thanks!

[@julesbaumann6560]

Thanks, Gary; great explanation of the usefulness of the focus option!

[@mariobrondo753]

Thanks Gary, your videos always give me great tools. I find this one video specially useful.

[@GaryfongInc]

Glad you find the videos useful.

[@DannySchlitt]

Thanks! I didn't even know about this feature until I watched this video. Can't wait to try it out next time I shoot

[@NelsonMangalagama]

I am from Sri Lanka [half way round the world], I discovered you just yesterday. You are a very good teacher, from now on I will tune in only to your channel.

[@RedPillTruth2023]

Very nice. Thank you!

[@malpal24]

this video is awesome!!! thank you

[@raberbmx3563]

you are awesome man thanks for the features

[@EdnaRibka]

Thank you Gary

[@helpihavenoskin8939]

Thank you for this great tutorial

[@allanredford6070]

very well explained. thanks pleasure to watch, you have best-looking models, I want to move there :)

[@climaxpicture]

wonderful video. thx

[@TheDodoVox]

Hi Gary, thank you for your tutorials. I would have a question, please. Is "Lock-on AF: Flexible Spot" function available on Sony A7S2 for videos? Thank you G.

[@farahdibaasia2717]

thanks this video really helpful

[@AmirSfairFilho]

great class. tnx

[@tburyww1084]

I have an older a58 so some of the advanced features are not there, but it is a good real time explanation of auto focus area settings. And your model is very beautiful!

[@PratapYadav]

Really good explanation

[@rockandsusie]

Thank you Gary Fong. Love your videos. My A77Mii enable me to see Lock-on AF Flexible Spot only without the S/M/L. Any other setting I had missed?

[@NuttyNu]

great video, great model

[@section31]

excellent video.

[@tugboat8475]

That's another great video

[@nolaPIC]

great stuff thanks~!

[@supastylez]

Thank u so much salute

[@robloxley5181]

Great video about Kate... Love it. ❤

[@zeliglui6656]

I am going to try this with my Sony RX100 M4, thanks for the tips Gary. Any Kate is very cute

[@blimages2]

So amazing 😍😍😍

[@zenarobinson2655]

This is fantastic! Thank you very much for explaining so well! I have one query and that is when I follow your instructions I am not getting the Green box around the subject, I am only getting the snowflakes so I am wondering whether or not I have a setting turned on to stop this from happening! I am so grateful for any help. Many thanks 😊

[@rustypadlock5129]

the lady is beautiful. thank you for the effort you made to explain all these things.

[@DDjMelody]

Awesome bro !!

[@larrypenney4381]

Gary, I'm a hobby photographer and I like shooting photos for my friends who participate in triathlons. I've been experimenting using background motion blur with my Canon, keeping the shutter speed low and panning with the rider as they zip by on their bikes. I just picked up an A6000 and I was wondering what you would recommend for focus settings to achieve the same effect? Thanks.

[@jktfoodmap]

my heart focus area set on katie... lol...

[@ggessex]

Lol!

[@megreilley3866]

THANK YOU!!!

[@MylonasFilms]

awesome thanks so much

[@imnotmark3053]

If your vlogging in2018 use wide focus area simple because it detect was closure or what stands out the most

[@helpaholic]

Hi Garry great job. you had said this option was on all alphas, though I don't see it on my A99 please help Thanks for all you do

[@bondsboy]

The Gary Fong Channel .. Is the Lock on Auto: Flex good with zoom as well? Like if I'm at the end of the isle will it adjust on my 70-200 as they walk closer and I zoom out? That would be sweet

[@kebotize]

gary is the subject here is katie or the AF lock on whatever... sometimes i got lost... i got distracted... but i learnt a lot... thanks gary...

[@pasmado00]

thanks really useful

[@henrickcamacho4543]

good demo made me hit subscribe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mohammedal-faraj123]

very nice record, you deserve subscribe and like, by the way my cam. is a7r 70-200 f4, is it a good camera ?

[@abouzarazarafza4381]

Thanks for such nice explanations. I got a question. How is it possible to focus on both people (say, birds) at different small depths at the same time?

[@fudgedink]

Thank you

[@trosencrantz]

Not sure if you know this as easily as you do with models/people but any clue what might be the better focus choice for say a product shoot where you are with-in 4 feet of subject and someone is moving around and you want everything to stay in focus and NOT focus breathe and try to decide what it should focus on? Some kind of lock on focus perhaps or take off auto?? Thanks for all the videos!

[@audric_lip7932]

Great video !!!

[@GaryfongInc]

Thanks!

[@missycan867]

Hi Gary, I can not find a video about how to focus on a group of people. I just bought the sony a6000 and I do a lot of family photography and I am a beginner photographer with no school so I am just learning as I go....can u help me choose which focus mode I need to use for all faces...thank you, M.C.

[@shaolin95]

OMG I know I saw how to do it before and yet I cannot find it on the video again. How is it that you can do the old focus and recompose process but with the camera actually keeping that object you focused on originally in focus. Like having a face on the edge to the right focused after I recomposed?

[@GotterVibez]

that's one badass Lens you have there

[@volvo512]

Hi gary, Is it possible to use flexible lock on movie mode on sony a7s II when the girl coming to me? My lens is sony sel f-1.4 35mm e mount

[@jaderainho1201]

I have an a7s ii and I shoot mostly videos. Can I use the AF Lock feature and flexible spot for filming? any tips to do it better? I want to use it while interviewing people, sometimes while they speak they move and the focus point changes. I want the camera to able to correct this automatically. I also want to be able to keep tracking people in run and gun moments. thank you

[@laglenn63]

Hi Gary I am truly grateful for all your videos on the Sony mirror less camera. I own a Sony A 7 I bought last year. I cannot find anymore setting under the flexible spot. I bought this in 2014. Am I missing something I cannot find Lock on AF Flexible spot. My camera has the latest version update.version 2. Please help. I shoot a lot of Belly dancers and would love to have this feature. Thanks again for all you do. Glenn Herring

[@edgarrincon3481]

Thank you, great tutorial!

[@GaryfongInc]

You're welcome!

[@VankillaVanil]

Still Great Tutorial even in 2023 🍻🍻

[@BuyiSell]

+Gary Fong so if I have my camera on Spot metering mode, does it meter the center of the image or the area in focus when in Lock AF etc?

[@JazzLicks]

If I’m taking a picture of multiple people and the person closest to the camera is on the far right of the frame should I focus on that person or focus on the person further back in the center of the frame? If I focus on the person to the right will they be the primary focus or is my camera just saying that the person closest to me is the beginning of where my camera focuses and from there I can get more focus depth through aperture? Thanks!

[@BPskiSchool]

Updated both firm wares. Af-F is now on the a6000 but not on the A7II

[@randallstudios9500]

Just curious... Is it OK to keep Steady Shot on while on a tripod? I was under the impression I had to turn it off. Thanks for any clarification!

[@moltenpros]

What about video autofocus? All of your videos are about photo autofocus, we need a video about video autofocus. Thank you.

[@jerryrichards8172]

I have the a77ii v2 and it dose have Lock-on AF:expand flexible spot. For those who are wondering it may have been added in the 2.0 update.

[@scopeydopey]

How well does the sony focus using remote shooting through external hardware and software, such as a tablet, and qdslrdashboard?

[@zabouti]

How do you "reacquire Katie" @6:00? I'm a little confused about how to lock focus on different areas. It feels as if there's no way to unlock it. I can use my A6500 touch screen, but I feel that there should be another way to move the flexible spot. I'm using Lock-On AF: Expand Flexible Spot as you recommend and like it a lot - just want to understand what your fingers are doing as you demo it.

[@widM_]

I can't pick Lock-on AF. To me it says "This operation or setting not avaible as follows - Manual Exposure" What do I have to change?

[@panjakub8720]

You see that center thing....? :) Very nice turtorial. Thank you.

[@VandanaDigitalArt]

Sir Can You Explain Auto And Manual Focus System In a7s ii I Want To Know How To Lock Object While Shooting

[@GaryfongInc]

We have a complete tutorial on the a7SII available at: www.garyfong.com/learn/unleash-power-your-sony-a7sii

[@Mohamedahmed331]

Does this video also apply to the Sony RX cameras?

[@allenschneider1847]

Were you using the joy stick to guide the focus area you wanted to lock on?

[@johnpurcellpurcell5207]

I went from Canon to Sony nex3 then a6000. What advice will you give for my next move? I’m taking mostly landscape,and portraits of family and friends....jp