8 Focus and Playback Menus

This chapter focuses (ahem) on the features found in the Focus tab and Playback tab. I’m going to emphasize the entries available in still photography mode or in both still photography and movie (Movie and S&Q Movie) modes. Several of the tabs described in this chapter have a few slightly different entries when the Still/Movie/S&Q dial is set to either movie position. I’ll explain those extra features in Chapter 10.

Focus Menu Tab

The Focus menu tab has five groups that adjust settings for autofocus, manual focus, and focus assistance aids. (See Figure 8.1.)

  • AF/MF
  • Focus Area
  • Subject Recognition
  • Focus Assistant
  • Peaking Display

1. AF/MF

These are the entries in the AF/MF group. Figure 8.2 shows the entries ...

Get David Busch’s Sony Alpha a6700/ILCE-6700 Guide to Digital Photography now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.