S5ii autofocus when several persons?

[PhotoPete]

The camera recognises well that there is a person or many persons in the frame. It keeps jumping from person to another and I have not yet figured out how to select the correct person to follow. How do you do it, anybody know?

 

[Lsake]

I think on the S5 you can push the joystick to toggle persons

 

[Richard Wong]

Unless there is something changed since the camera was released, you need to be in full area mode then you can push joystick to toggle (or use the touch screen)

 

[hybrid_fan]

A number of people have mentioned that there appears to be a bug with this function in the S5II. The joystick (or touch screen) lets you specify the desired subject, but it doesn't stick like it did in the S5m1. After a moment it starts jumping between subjects again. I've confirmed the same behavior on mine. As a temporary solution, I sometimes use 1 area or zone focus with human detect. I really hope it is something they can fix soon in firmware.

 

[CharlesH]

A number of people have mentioned that there appears to be a bug with this function in the S5II.

It seems to work on my S5II. If I get a chance I'll try it on more groups of people.

 

[hybrid_fan]

It seems to work on my S5II. If I get a chance I'll try it on more groups of people.

Interesting. I’ll play with it some more to see if I was missing something.

 

[Richard Wong]

yes it seems to work for me too. But i may try again later.

 

[PhotoPete]

Unless there is something changed since the camera was released, you need to be in full area mode then you can push joystick to toggle (or use the touch screen)

I can confirm this now. It was jumping around but I had the setting in "1-area". When I selected full area it recognized all the people in the frame. Then I pushed the joystick and it jumped from one person to another. I was using a photo (with persons) in my big screen tv as a test area and it was working perfectly (at least there).