Having Your Focus Auto-Track the Action

If you’re going to be shooting sports, there’s a focus setting on your camera that you’re going to want to change to help you track the action and stay in focus. Switch from the default focus, which is for non-moving objects, to a focus mode that tries to automatically track a moving object if it moves out of the focus area. On Nikon cameras, you’d switch from Single-Servo mode to Continuous-Servo focus mode, and you do that right on the front of the camera itself—it’s that little switch on the front, right under the lens, marked M, S, and C. You want C (for Continuous-Servo). On Canon cameras, it’s called AI Servo AF, and you turn it on by pressing the AF•Drive button on the top of the camera, and then turning the main dial until you see AI Servo in the top LCD panel.