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Topic starter May 30, 2023 9:11 am  

I have a question, and the answer is probably obvious to most of you, so I apologize for needing to ask in the first place. My Z8 shipped earlier this week, and the auto focus is great, noticeably better than the Z7II (still a great camera).

With that said my Nikon Z8 is setup to use back button auto focus.  The back button AF-ON works fine with single point auto-focus. However, back button (AF-ON) does not seem to work with any of the continuous auto focus modes. Essentially, what is happening is when I use the AF-ON only, the focus points stop moving/tracking the subject and the focus points become static.  The camera will focus after the focus point centers itself in the box (whatever mode I am using), but it won't track the subject. 

Again, this is only a problem when I use back button AF-On exclusively.  I don’t have this problem when I use the shutter release button to focus and take a picture, the camera tracks subjects as expected until the photograph is taken.

Does anyone know what is happening?  Thank you.

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Topic starter May 31, 2023 7:11 am  

I figured this out.  I don't know what I initially did when I set up the camera, I probably activated a setting by accident and didn’t realize it, but I have since reset all my settings and continuous auto focus with AF-ON is working exactly the way it's supposed to.  This is a great camera.


   
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