The Sony a6000 has powerful feature called Eye Auto Focus, allowing the camera to locate and focus on your subject’s eye. Unfortunately this feature is disabled upon unboxing your Sony a6000 and requires you to customize on of the buttons of your camera to enable Eye Auto Focus.
In this video Kyle Perison, who works alongside Gary Fong, shares how to customize the AEL button of your camera to active Eye Auto Focus.
Should you hold down the eye autofocus button while taking the picture even if you are using back button focus?
I could see doing this because the subject might move and the focus is critical.
There isn’t a particular “Eye Autofocus” button. When you activate AI-Focus, the camera will find the eyeball. If it can’t find the eyeball, it will find the face. If it can’t find the face, it will select the subject. Under back button focus, it will ‘track’ but only when you have the button engaged.