Back button focus: You'll NEVER go back!

I have.

Does anyone use manual focus anymore? This tutorial should be called “How to be Smarter Than Your Camera.”

I like the Sony lenses with focus hold buttons and reprogramming these buttons to focus on…

BBF helps me save time focusing. So amazing. thanks for the tutorial. I bought your book! Yay!

I admit it is the best way to learn to shoot from the beginning, but I'm not comfortable with it, it's hard to learn a old dog to sit…

I have started using BBF now and it has made a huge difference, except for when I forget I have it set up..

I still cannot believe I just discovered your channel just a few weeks ago, you guys really have amazing tips and podcasts that are just useful tips, amazing channel and thank you!

you lucky dog, how'd you end up with Chelsea

If your camera is set to continuous shooting mode and you keep the shutter half pressed you don't have to refocus every time even if in one shot focus.
It keeps sense to keep single shot on shutter and continuous in the back so you don't have to switch.
But regarding the if something happens and the camera is already focused in the ballpark it makes sense.

Your camera is missing focus on those examples lol its not focused on her eyes but the wall

so that's what that does

Why take your finger off the half-pressed shutter?

I just keep the shutter pressed down half way after taking a shot so I don't need to focus again and recompose the shot. Isn't that even faster and easier then backbutton focus?

Wow!!! This is great! I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this!!! Your videos are so helpful!!

what was going on with the football part? it looked really weird were they playing with a balloon?

before you "discovered" back button focus? they have been on the camera for years. did you only just use it in 2018 or something? dumbasses

Great video

Very well explained. I tried it for a while and (anecdotally) felt that the AF focus was slower to acquire focus lock on BBF than SBF on the E-M1.2 (firmware 2.3). I tried it for several months so I feel like I was over the lack of familiarity aspect when making my assessment on the effectiveness. Have you experienced or heard of anything similar?

What the hell is this video!!? You just took manual focus (something we all use if we're serious about photography), then complicated the shit out of it. Trying to make out we all need to be pressing a whole load of button combinations to get the focus the camera wants you to have. Seriously guys, switch to manual and take control of your camera.

I never thought about it

I literally had no idea this even existed.

still don't have no idea what is back button focus

Great info. Thanks Tony and Chelsea, you both are amazing. Lots of love ❤️ from India 🇮🇳

After 20 years of shooting Nikon and trying the backButton focus several times,I dont like it

Always very good videos!

My F6 has this but I didn't know to to use back-button focus on it until this video. Thank you.

Except on lesser bodies, Nikon kind of forgot that we left-eyed guys exist. I used to be a back-button user while I was on the Canon system, but the placement of it on anything bellow D800 series is horrible for anyone using the left eye for framing through the VF.

ok u got me. Im gonna change to BBF.

Been using this method since I got my EOS 30D in 2006. Can't imagine it any other way!

The title of this video is Spot On. I watched this video a couple months ago, was skeptical but thought I'd try it. The first month it took me a while to get used to it, but I didn't use my camera that much during that time. However, we just returned from a long vacation where we visited four State & National Parks, during which I took over 1,000 photos. Back button focus is now ingrained in my mind, and Tony is right, I will Never Go Back!

Real photographers focus manually.

This is a great suggestion. I saw the value immediately and setup my camera that way right away.

Im confused. Im not a camera person. So do I press this back button thingy and hold it and then press the shoot button? Or do I press the back button release it and then press the shoot button? I don’t understand it. Someone help.

Tried it, hated it, went back. Sozbubs.

No good if you want to take snaps low down using live-view on a flexible screen.

Some videos say you have to have the AI Servo selected for back button focus to work? Is this true didn’t see it in your video.

Not at all convinced, that's two actions – thumb and forefinger – instead of one.

With the Sony a73, is it still possible to lock in focus during single point af so you don't have to recompose? Or do the buttons only switch between eye af and single point af?

Tony, I have a SONY A7 Mk II. Your QUOTE "you can program one AF-On button to do a single autofocus point, and a second button (such as AEL) to focus with all autofocus points." I have set up the AF-On button as per your guide to the MF/AF button. However, how do set up AEL to be set up with all autofocus points using the AEL button? I don't see an option for that.