ASSIGNING BACK BUTTON AE/AF FEATURE FOR TAKING PHOTOS: DOES ANYONE USE THIS FEATURE? HEARD IT IS GREAT. LIKE TO KNOW PROS & CONS. THANKS...

avemal Loc: BALTIMORE

DOES ANYONE USE THIS FEATURE? HEARD IT IS GREAT.
LIKE TO KNOW PROS & CONS. THANKS

Wandering Loc: Sea Wa

Not to be picky, but do you realize ALL CAPS is screaming?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

After having shutter button focusing for 16 years I am sometimes forgetting to push the back button and wondering why the lens didn't focus. But I will keep after it until I get it right.It does help, push once focused then wait to push shutter at right moment. Unless of course the subject moves.

avemal wrote:

DOES ANYONE USE THIS FEATURE? HEARD IT IS GREAT.
LIKE TO KNOW PROS & CONS. THANKS

Bear2 Loc: Southeast,, MI

I use BBF all the time on both my dslr bodies.
Duane

avemal wrote:

DOES ANYONE USE THIS FEATURE? HEARD IT IS GREAT.
LIKE TO KNOW PROS & CONS. THANKS

buenaventura43 Loc: Rockland Co. NY

I always use BBF since I begun learning to use my DLSR.

Mr PC Loc: Austin, TX

There are some really good threads on this very topic here, use the Search at the top of the page and look for back button focus. I'm left-handed and I use my left eye for the viewfinder, so my right cheek gets in the way. Great in concept, not so great in practice for me. It seems a large majority of the pros do use BBF, it does cut down on movement.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

robertjerl wrote:

After having shutter button focusing for 16 years I am sometimes forgetting to push the back button and wondering why the lens didn't focus. But I will keep after it until I get it right.It does help, push once focused then wait to push shutter at right moment. Unless of course the subject moves.

I use BBF. Don't understand why my 7D didn't come set up that way. All us old film camera guys learned topush the shutter gently all the way down, to avoid camera shake.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

avemal wrote:

DOES ANYONE USE THIS FEATURE? HEARD IT IS GREAT.
LIKE TO KNOW PROS & CONS. THANKS

I've just started using BBF. It seems pretty good---when I remember it's not the shutter button anymore, but I'm too new to it to give you a better answer.

Db7423 Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

I have used BBF for years now. There is a learning curve but once you reprogram your muscle memory so it becomes second nature you will be glad you made the change. ;)

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

robertjerl wrote:

After having shutter button focusing for 16 years I am sometimes forgetting to push the back button and wondering why the lens didn't focus. But I will keep after it until I get it right.It does help, push once focused then wait to push shutter at right moment. Unless of course the subject moves.

:thumbup: Same here. I just started, and every time I push the shutter button halfway and nothing happens I have a moment of panic. :shock:

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Even worse, my lens makes a sound but doesn't focus and i think I broke it.

Just experimented with BBF, center point only focus and continues focus on some doves in the yard and a hawk that went overhead, better, need to practice it is so high up it is not much more than a bird shaped outline, but it is pretty much in focus./

Mac wrote:

:thumbup: Same here. I just started, and every time I push the shutter button halfway and nothing happens I have a moment of panic. :shock:

Swamp Gator Loc: Coastal South Carolina

I have used BBF exclusively going back to my film days on a Canon EOS 1n body.
It's the only way to go in my view especially for sports and wildlife action.

Mormorazzi Loc: Temple, Texas

I began using the back button two years ago and drastically improved my "keepers."

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I have an even better idea. My 35mm cameras were Mirandas with the shutter button on the front. You squeezed to take a picture, less camera movement than the top right button. If they would make a body with the shutter on the front and the focus on the back so you squeezed like my old Mirandas it would be great.

avemal Loc: BALTIMORE

Did not know you could hear through this site.