help..with back button focus how to turn it off
Nov 20, 2013 18:13:33 #
I've turned on my back- button focus on my d3100, now I would like to be able to turn it off, CANT. I have looked in my manual, on-line, you tube, does anyone on here know how to turn it off??
Tom
Tom
Nov 20, 2013 18:23:02 #
Nov 20, 2013 18:34:35 #
Did you originally set it via custom functions? In my Canon, the way to un-do back button focus was to go to "clear settings" in the menu, then find the choice relating to custom functions.
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Nov 20, 2013 19:09:00 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Better?????
Nov 20, 2013 19:09:20 #
Tom DePuy wrote:
I've turned on my back- button focus on my d3100, now I would like to be able to turn it off, CANT. I have looked in my manual, on-line, you tube, does anyone on here know how to turn it off??
Tom
Tom
If you can't get back into the particular menu item you are looking for it is usually because your mode dial is on a setting that does not allow you in to that specific menu item....crank it around till you can access the AF .
Nov 20, 2013 19:36:56 #
Excellent tutorial on this at http://improvephotography.com/4552/back-button-focusing/
Hope it helps.
Hope it helps.
Nov 20, 2013 19:40:55 #
Tom DePuy wrote:
Better?????
Much.
Now if people do a search on the subject in the future, your post will help them.
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Nov 20, 2013 19:55:53 #
Photog8 wrote:
Excellent tutorial on this at http://improvephotography.com/4552/back-button-focusing/
Hope it helps.
Hope it helps.
yes I have seen this ....doesn't help tho, does not say how to turn it off, or be able to go back to using the shutter button to focus....thanks
Nov 20, 2013 20:42:59 #
According to Magic Lantern Guide for D3100; go to Setup menu, under 'Buttons', turn 'AF-OFF'. I found the Nikon manual supplied doesn't explain clear enough or go deep enough for even a starter DSLR. UHH member recomended the Magic Lantern Guides from Amazon and I'm glad I ordered it. It was half the cover price. Good Luck.
Nov 20, 2013 21:12:11 #
Tpharm wrote:
According to Magic Lantern Guide for D3100; go to Setup menu, under 'Buttons', turn 'AF-OFF'. I found the Nikon manual supplied doesn't explain clear enough or go deep enough for even a starter DSLR. UHH member recomended the Magic Lantern Guides from Amazon and I'm glad I ordered it. It was half the cover price. Good Luck.
You cannot turn it "off", it has to have a set function, standard is AE-L/AF-L, simply reset that as the designated function and it will no longer work to AF.
Nov 20, 2013 22:34:18 #
Tpharm wrote:
. I found the Nikon manual supplied doesn't explain clear enough or go deep enough for even a starter DSLR.
Ain't that the truth? Even as a "starter DSLR" a 200 page manual doesn't come close to explaining the 16,000 setting combinations. I usually end up Googling for the specifics.
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Nov 21, 2013 04:08:39 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
I would have thought the best way, was to NOT use the button. Leave it alone.
Nov 21, 2013 06:51:38 #
MT Shooter wrote:
You cannot turn it "off", it has to have a set function, standard is AE-L/AF-L, simply reset that as the designated function and it will no longer work to AF.
thank you MT ....did what you said and that did work. Thank you, Tom
PS I even went to Nikon's web-site ask them this question and they could not even answer it.
Nov 21, 2013 07:25:03 #
Tom DePuy wrote:
I've turned on my back- button focus on my d3100, now I would like to be able to turn it off, CANT. I have looked in my manual, on-line, you tube, does anyone on here know how to turn it off??
Tom
Tom
Look under your cameras custom functions. One of them allows you to change what your shutter button does. You probably have it set to metering, or metering only. Change it to metering/focus.
I shoot Canon but it seems to me when I helped a Nikon shooter set up his camera he had this function and he had to change it to metering only to make BBF work.
Can I make a suggestion? Put a piece of paper in your manual and any time you make a change on one of your settings make a note of it. Then if you need to make a change you can look and see what you need to do.
Jim D
Nov 21, 2013 07:44:07 #
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