Understanding The Canon R10 Autofocus?

[MrJackT]

Hello! 

I recently purchased the Canon R10 with the RF 100-400mm IS USM lens. I bought this camera for plane spotting. 

The viewfinder autofocus is completely different to the DSLR and it’s a little confusing. There is lots of different tracking etc when tapping the shutter button. 

I was practicing photos with the camera and noticed that when moving the camera when the aircraft was landing the photo was going a little blurry but not always. This is weird because the AF and Image stabilisation were both actually turned on. 

I used the manual and sports mode.

I don’t know why some photos were blurry when taking continuous photos with the aircraft moving (landing) when both the AF and image stabilisation were turned on. 

The AF was on the whole area and there were so many different options I was not sure which to choose….

Photo:

Any advice would be great. 

[MrJackT]

Hey Trevor!

Thanks for explaining that and I have always used the button (shutter button) to focus onto subjects and my previous camera had no problem with it. But this new Mirrorless camera is quite different and I am not really sure what settings to play around with except for the TV mode that you already mentioned. 

On my previous canon camera I always used Manual and Sports modes and my photos were great. I tried to use the manual mode on my new camera and noticed that the focusing was not as good or not focusing how I would of liked the camera to focus onto a subject. 

Those are great photos by the way! Did you use manual mode for that? 

I do need to ask another question:

On the RF 100-400mm IS USM lens what are the rings for on the lens? I have not used the rings as I have only just zoomed the lens in and out. 

Thanks!