Samuel H
Major Contributor
Exactly: eye-detect AF was disabled in video mode on the a6300, a6500, a7III, a7RIII and a9. I'm just wondering if this leap forward also means that it's now available in video mode.
(The one above is screen capture in photo mode, you could also do that on the previous models, but, AFAIK, as soon as you started recording video in-camera or enabled full-quality HDMI out the eye-detect AF would be gone)
The explanation was that the processor can't do both eye-detect and video processing and encoding at the same time. Sounds dubious to me, but well, the a6400 can't show the green rectangle on the right place if you're taking pictures (focus does the right thing, but screen doesn't show it, it lags and falls way behind) so maybe that lack of processing power issue is a real thing.
(The one above is screen capture in photo mode, you could also do that on the previous models, but, AFAIK, as soon as you started recording video in-camera or enabled full-quality HDMI out the eye-detect AF would be gone)
The explanation was that the processor can't do both eye-detect and video processing and encoding at the same time. Sounds dubious to me, but well, the a6400 can't show the green rectangle on the right place if you're taking pictures (focus does the right thing, but screen doesn't show it, it lags and falls way behind) so maybe that lack of processing power issue is a real thing.