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Hi Everyone, thanks in advance for your help. I have this amazing A7iii with eye af in photo mode but I’m missing something. Watching all the different videos showing all the amazing features that focus on eye af seem to show that there is eye af in video mode, but unless I’m in p, a, s, or m there isn’t a way to use eye af in video. The other question is do I have to continually have to hold whatever button is assigned (center) or is there a way to toggle eye af. Currently the only way to hold focus is using face detection unless I hold the center button or whatever the button is assigned to for eye af. Great abilities, but frustrated with this. I can’t see holding a button to focus on an eye while the camera is on a gimbal. Thanks again for all your help. Robert
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I'm trying to use a Sony Alpha A6100 with a BlackMagic Intensity Pro 4K capture device, and having problems with Eye-AF getting disabled. For background, when I use the same camera with an Epiphan AV.IO 4K capture device, it works fine. Specifically, I go into the Setup3 > 4K Output Select menu, select "HDMI ONLY (30p)", and get 2160p29.97 output (so not actually 30, but good enough since I know what I'm getting) with Eye AF working great. Same thing happens with an Elgato Camlink 4K capture device. By contrast, when I plug the camera into the BlackMagic capture device, several things are different. First, the "4K Output Select" menu is unavailable. Second, on my screen I get a blinking "STBY" icon, as if it weren't plugged into an HDMI device. Finally, of course, there is no Eye AF, which is unfortunate since the improved AF was the reason I got this camera in the first place. I can confirm that I am getting 2160p29.97 output from the camera, though. There are several reasons why I would prefer to use the camera with the BlackMagic Intensity Pro card (in addition to the fact that I paid $200 for the card and own it). For starters, because the card is PCIe, it can do YUV 4:2:2 instead of 4:2:0. Second, in my experience the USB capture can be not quite as reliable just because USB is a bit flaky (I tested 5 different PCIe USB cards before finding one that seems to work okay with 4K capture). Can anyone thing of why the camera would not give me access to the "4K Output Select" menu with some capture devices, or if there's some other way of forcing Eye AF in my situation? Thanks.