AF - an improvement I'd like to see.

[OldrockyGN]

So there are certain situations where the AF "has trouble" doing what I want/need it to do. For example, let's
say you are trying to take a picture of a bird that is "buried back in some reeds" . If you let the AF do it - taking
your finger off and putting it back down ... the camera will almost always 'go right back to the same focus
point'. But these birds have an annoying habit of moving almost every frame ... while never being out in
front of the reeds/limbs of the bush, etc.
So what I'd like Canon to do is to have a "timing thing" where if you let off and then come back on in some
particular rhythm/timing that the camera reacts with "let's try a -different- focus point". And if you do it
again it will try a third/fourth different point. Whether or not the camera has been 're-aimed' should be
part of this equation.
I will not specify what that timing amount is - I'll learn it when it is available.

So what do -you- think of this? ... Oldrocky in the PNW

 

[Blorp]

Work around solution I am using on my R5:

I can tell my R5 where the full auto AF should start, I have full auto on the backbuton and single point on the shutter, if I half press the shutter the fullauto will use the spot AF position as a starting reference, when I engage the backbutton AF.

I can point that anywhere I like and tell the full auto AF to look for something interesting at that spot.

 

[OldrockyGN]

Work around solution I am using on my R5:

I can tell my R5 where the full auto AF should start, I have full auto on the backbuton and single point on the shutter, if I half press the shutter the fullauto will use the spot AF position as a starting reference, when I engage the backbutton AF.

I can point that anywhere I like and tell the full auto AF to look for something interesting at that spot.

Blorp - thanks ... I have an R5m2 but have not, yet, been able to get BBAF to work like this/how I want it to work. I will
try again to discover the settings that allow me to have it simply change the AF to work like you describe it.