David Busch’s Sony Alpha a6100/ILCE-6100 Guide to Digital Photography

Mastering Autofocus Options

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Yes, I waxed ecstatic over the real-time tracking autofocus features of the a6100 in the introduction of this book. It’s not easy to overestimate the importance of this particular breakthrough, which gives this modestly priced camera an advantage over other vendors’ cameras with much higher price tags. The a6100 has the ability to lock in on subjects, track their motion, switch to face detection/tracking, then progress to even more precise eye detection—and then backtrack to the other methods as movement continues through the frame. That’s particularly impressive because, when mirrorless digital cameras were introduced, autofocus was something they weren’t particularly good at.

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