From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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Focus basics: AFS/AFF, AFC, and MF - Lumix Tutorial
From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Focus basics: AFS/AFF, AFC, and MF
- Your GH5 camera has three slash four different focusing modes. There's AFS, for auto-focus single, and AFF for auto-focus flexible, then there's AFC for auto-focus continuous, and MF for manual focus. Let's start with the simple auto-focus modes. AFS is auto-focus single. This is where the camera focuses, locks, and then doesn't refocus again. This is what you'd typically use for any subject that isn't moving whether it's a still life, a building, or anything that's not moving where you want the camera to focus, lock, and then not even think about refocusing. There's auto-focus continuous where you are shooting something that is moving. So it might be your kids running around, it might be a sports game, a moving car, whatever it might be, you know the subject is moving and so you want the camera to follow it as best as it can and keep things always in focus, and then the AFF or auto-focus flexible is a mode that's somewhere between. The idea of auto-focus flexible is that you set…
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GH5 autofocus system introduction24s
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Focus basics: AFS/AFF, AFC, and MF2m 49s
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AF modes5m 39s
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Manual focus: Peaking, MF Assist, and AF+MF8m 28s
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Customizing AF for still photography3m 4s
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Customizing AF for video4m 17s
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Focus control: Joystick, touchpad, and back button focus7m 9s
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Depth of field preview2m 57s
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Focus transitions5m 20s
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