David Busch's Canon EOS R8 Guide to Digital Photography

12 Customizing with the Autofocus Menu

This chapter contains descriptions of some of the more esoteric options available for the complex autofocus systems found in the EOS R8. Many of these are the settings that you’ll probably set once and forget for a while, or, at least until you decide to make a significant change in your camera’s autofocus behavior.

As much as I would have liked to present one huge, 100-page chapter on autofocus, it made more sense to describe the basic functions and settings in-depth in Chapter 5, and retain the lesser-used AF menu descriptions here with the camera’s other menus. I think the need to jump back and forth will be minimal, although, as with any camera guide, you may need a review of other chapters from ...