The Nikon D300 is my first real smart camera. I ignore the Auto AF modes in the other cameras, but since Thom Hogan said the D300 auto AF modes are amazing, I had to try it.

These are 3 examples of how the auto-AF nails off center subjects without a single problem at all.

Absolutely no problems whatsoever. Thom says D300 uses the skin tones to figure out where humans are, in my case using Auto-area AF and Single Servo so I know which sensors it is picking, I was stunned to see it picked the right sensors based on skin and eye location EACH time.

I have examples of 2 off-center subjects [don't have model releases :) ], but they were at the edge of the screen. Auto-area AF nails the focus plane between them, not the center wall through them.

I can’t stop going gaga over this. With the D80, I was either using focus recompose [kid moves] or outer sensor [focus hunts], so I would miss a lot of these shots. Not anymore. Not anymore.

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