Hello! I've been struggling with my auto focus for a while now. I primarily shoot sports and my camera has been losing its focus point routinely. For example, I can be locked on (or what I think is locked on) to a players face but if another person enters the frame the focus point will always jump to that person - even if it's the back of their head! That one is really frustrating, why is it finding the back of a head instead of the face I've already locked on?
Another example, I'll be locked on a batter who's up at the plate and the focus will suddenly switch to a spectator who is not only further away, but behind a fence. And finally, if I'm shooting into a group and place my focus point on the person in the center of the frame, how can I get it stay on that person? The camera seems to always pick someone off to the side, or the back of a head, and not the face that is dead center in my frame and where my initial focus point is.
I've tried adjusting the mode to more locked on, less locked on, etc. Would it be better to turn off facial recognition all together? It's just driving me nuts that I have a player locked in, I'm following them in action and then boom, no, camera doesn't want them anymore, it wants some face in the stands.
