Anyone Use AF-A?

[Brownie]

A while back I read an article about Sony's AF-A but I can't recall which camera they were testing, it may have been an A6000. The reviewer stated that while AF-A worked, it wasn't as accurate as AF-S or AF-C and resulted in soft or OOF shots while the camera tried to identify whether the subject was moving and switched back and forth.

I'm wondering if anyone uses it with good success and with which camera? By 'good success' I mean very, very few soft shots, or...if it's not worth bothering with. As a rule I'll use AF-C, which seems to work well when the subject is static and then starts to move.

 

[AlphaWorld]

I just looked it up, and according to the Sony web-site, AF-A is only available on Sony A mount cameras, not E mount.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00267931

 

[Slug]

I just looked it up, and according to the Sony web-site, AF-A is only available on Sony A mount cameras, not E mount.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00267931

Well I've just checked my E-mount A6400 and AF-A is an option although I never use it.

 

[pointreyes]

Per the book on the A7Riv by Friedman. The Sony cameras have improved enough in AF that the need for AF-A is not really needed anymore. As quoted from the book: "Couple that with the fact that AF-C is now uber-reliable (it used to hunt in the old days; now it’s so steady it’s as if you were using AF-S), AF-A is a setting I can safely forget."

 

[Brownie]

I just looked it up, and according to the Sony web-site, AF-A is only available on Sony A mount cameras, not E mount.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00267931

I better call Sony and let them know they included a feature in both of my cameras I'm not supposed to have. I wonder if they'll give me a full refund?

From the A7 IV manual:

From the A7R III Manual

 

[AlphaWorld]

Weird! You would think Sony could get it right on their own web site!

 

[Jeff A]

I suspect that few people know the Sony line of cameras as well as Mark Galer. In Mark's eBook for the A7 IV, he makes this notation regarding AF-A: