Auto-area AF
• The DSLR intelligently and automatically detects subjects, focusing on them accurately even during high-speed shooting.
• The camera identifies the major subject automatically using all 153 points and achieves focus, prioritising portrait subjects through effective face detection capabilities.
• This mode allows the photographer to concentrate more on composition and capturing the perfect shot, making it well-suited for free-moving subjects like ice-skaters or running children.
Single-point AF
• The camera achieves focus around a selected point determined by a photographer, honing in on a specific subject. This can come in handy when capturing portraits with a lens that provides a very shallow depth of field, such as the AF-S NIKKOR 105mm f/1.4E ED.
Dynamic-area AF
• Dynamic-area AF tracks a moving subject around a single focus point, utilising surrounding points to continuously focus on a particular subject (areas covered by 25, 72 or 153 points). It is optimised to capture erratic movement typical of wildlife or sports photography, where tracking a subject with one focus point can be challenging.
Group-area AF
• The AF system can be configured to recognise the subject as an “area”, with a central selected point and the surrounding ones as a group. This would be most useful for following unpredictable movement across the entire frame with multiple focus points.
3D –tracking
• The DSLR intelligently follows the subject, automatically changing focus points across all 153 as the subject moves, when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway. 3D-tracking is usually used when combining creative composition with moving subjects.