>>3652806>Why do you hate it's AF system?Because who the FUCK thought this control setup was a good idea?
Like, let's say I want to change my autofocus point. On my Canon, I just use the little joystick and move it directly, pushing it in like a button to get to the middle. On my Nikon, same deal. On lower-end bodies, I can remap the D-pad to move the AF point directly, at the cost of stupid bullshit I care about less (e.g., being able to go to the white balance menu with one button, which I don't need because I shoot raw). Ditto with my Fuji.
Selecting an autofocus point I want to use is one of the things I do most frequently when using an autofocus camera.
On the A7 II, you have to
1. Press whatever button you have set up for "Go into change autofocus point mode". You have to customize this because there's not a standard button for it, but that's not a huge deal because the A7 II *does* come with a bunch of customizable buttons. So, I mapped it to my center-of-the-d-pad button.
2. Press that button. This puts you into ALMOST ready to change your focus point mode.
3. Either turn one of the dials or press one of the directional buttons. This serves no actual purpose I can tell. But it makes your selected AF point light up.
4. Now you can actually change your AF point.
Like, it's not a HUGE thing, but that's two extra button presses any time I want to change my AF point. It's always "Go into almost-AF-point-selection mode, go into for-real-AF-point-selection-mode, select your AF point". For something that I change frequently when shooting, it's infuriating.
I was going to go into detail about how annoying it is to switch between manual focus point selection and eye-detect AF, too, but I've spent the last five minutes trying to remember how to turn on eye-detect AF with no luck. So let that be my argument.
It's a system very much designed by computer scientists--and bad ones--rather than by actual photographers.
