Back Button Focus

A good Friend told me about Back Button a while ago and I don't think I put two thoughts to it, to tell you the truth it takes me a while to learn something as I am not a huge fan on reading text books or a computer screen with a whole heap of words and no pictures, One of the lovely ladys on a Facebook group posted the link of http://simplyknotphotography.com/blog/2010/02/back-button-focus-for-nikon/ written by Simply Knot Photography, It was way easier to understand with point form on how to find your settings, Also they went back and helped people in the comments.

So thank you Ryan & Denise, Also Emma and the lovely lot at Pure Constructive Criticism :) you all help me heaps,


So a quick run down thanks to Melissa Jill Back button-focusing Please tho head to her blog to see the pics and a heap more info on it.


If you want to try back-button focusing here are the settings for the Canon 5D Mark II:

1. Under C.FN IV: Operation/Others set #1 to "3:AE lock/Metering + AF start" and #2 to "1:Enable"
2. Turn your AF setting to AI Servo. Leave it there from now on and never take it off.

For a Canon 5D:

1. Go to custom function 4 and set it to setting 1. (setting 0 is default)
2. Turn your AF setting to AI Servo. Leave it there from now on and never take it off.

For Nikon users (courtesy of Simply Knot Photography):

1. Go into your custom settings menu
2. Select A (autofocus)
3. Select A5 (AF Activation)
4. Choose AF-ON only
5. Use "AF-ON" button on the back of your camera to focus