If you choose custom menu "A6: Store points by orientation", when you switch between portrait and landscape it will remember where the box/AF point was left and position it for you so that you don't have to move it so much!

Nikon's eye auto focus has gotten so much better since this video It finds eyes much much further and seems to notice smaller objects in the middle of the frame in auto area af

Man! That was fun, informative and entertaining! I really enjoyed how you spoke as an experienced photographer without resorting to bash Nikon and the camera. This is much better than what they do in those other channels where all they do is trash Nikon and/or compare cameras, specs and kiss Canon's and Sony's little behinds. Keep up the awesome and positive vibes of the channel.

"You are smarter than your camera" -- you have an enormous faith in humanity 😂

Their expressions are spot on. This is not AF related. The photographer did a good job interacting with the people.

I have the F2 button set to switch to focus tracking. So when wide area eye starts struggling you press the button and get a small box. Put that on a face and start focusing then the camera will lock onto it until you let go of the focus. Quick and reliable with you just tapping the F2 button again to go back to wide area eye.

Still using the first gen z camera and love it. I stay in continuous myself and in auto area. If I need to lock on a subject I hit f1 to engage subject tracking in busy situations. Kudos for giving Nikon a chance.

That ‘peace’ at the end brought me to tears.

Thanks for being balanced and fair, I have found my Z6ll to be pretty good at AF also.

I was struggling for months with my Z6II and its focus options. So happy I found this video, and the other one from Omar on setting up the camera. I need to watch these again, but all ready with my camera in hand, it is so simple compared to the disappointment I have had so far.

Great discussion for me as a new owner of a Z6ii Years ago when I had a Nikon SLR ELW it was easy, now there are so many settings to consider. As an older guy, I want slow and easy.

Excited to see more videos from you Omar, I hope you’re doing well. I just wanted to say that if you enjoyed it, a series/ video like your framing vs cropping ones would be great. Something that involves you looking at pictures from subscribers and talking about them and/ or just giving tips in general about photography is really fun and informative to see. Thanks for the videos, ever since I got my X-T2 I binged almost all your videos lol, but I still watch them. I came for the Fujifilm tutorials and stayed for the Omar.

Not a Nikon user but I have something to comment: I personally haven't used Eye AF (other than trying it) on my R5. Not even once. I like having control over my focus points, composition and just about everything else. I shoot documentary, street portraiture and wildlife, I need full control over my focus. Eye AF doesn't allow me to do that. As good as the Eye AF system in the 'XYZ' camera might be, I have no control over it. This goes specifically for my type wildlife work, where I can not afford to depend on the cameras Animal Eye AF to work or not. To mention another point; for some of my compositions, I do not want to focus on the eyes.

Great video dude, But it might be good for you to test and use the tracking mode for moving subjects and like family moving towards you and when the girl was spinning around it works really well, I'm in a wedding and portrait Nikon Z Facebook and we have talked about the different focus modes in depth, Let me know if you would like to join mate. I'm shooting my first wedding on Saturday with 2 Z6ii's and I cant wait. I'll let you know How I get on. Cheers Geoff

Focus and recompose can still be just as useful today as it wes in the days of manual film cameras.

I've been looking for this tip since I started using the Nikon Z5. Wide-area focus mode will keep everyone in the shot in focus. Thank you!!!

I think your advise in the first couple of minutes was the most useful; we as the photographer need to judge and assess which is the best AF mode/area for any given situation. Of course, this only comes with experience and doing lots of portrait shoots. When I used to do children's portraits in a studio setting using my DSLR and 2/3 studio lights I would set aperture to about F11 and using Single centre point AF, just focus on the nearest eye and re-compose, worked a treat most of the time.

That first five minutes really helped me understand eye AF.

Thanks for making these videos. I just traded in my Nikon D750 and 70-200 VR II. I'm putting that money towards getting a Z6II along with that I have saved up. So I'm learning a lot. Thank you.

So after you have experience the Nikon z2 give us your opinion on autofocus compare to Fuji XT-4 .

Omar - thanks for the timely video. I just love it. I am a D750 user and I've been researching which mirrorless system to move to. I dd purchase the Fuji X100V to dip my toes into the mirrorless world - and it has helped me understand a bit more how mirrorless works. I would love to stick with Nikon - I do love the colors but Im so unsure about the focus system.

Love the energy and humour in the video. Very informative overall. Cheers!

Thank you, sir! So well done and I thoroughly enjoy your sense of humor! This is my favorite thus far!

Would have liked to see how to turn the different modes on. All the videos assume you know how to enable the different autofocus points but instead they talk about the modes. Haven’t found a good video that shows you how to enable a mode and then how it looks and acts.

Omar you have become my favorite photography channel because of your personality, sense of humor..and photography skills. LOVED this video as I picked up a Z6II a week ago and felt a bit overwhelmed with so many auto focus choices. Yesterday went to a cool Ghost town in Utah and took a bunch of wife pics (portraits). The sun in Utah is bright as hell? Is it bright in hell? lol Anyway I found eye focus would sometimes go past my wife if the background was brighter than where she was standing. I found using boring "single point" got me 99% of my photos IN focus with very sharp eyes. I wonder if the bigger red box can be as accurate as single point as to eyes as it covers a wider area than a POINT no?. Pinpoint works well too but is prob too slow. I have a Panasonic S5 which nobody would believe has amazing auto and eye focus. I knoooow -Just contrast detect but works GREAT. I felt the Z6II was a bit overall clunky somehow, BUT the files and color are off the charts GREAT. So as you mentioned perhaps Nikon will keep improving auto focus. For sure it's not as fluid/fast/easy as to focusing as a Sony or even the FF Panasonics..but the FILES!! WOW. And you said it best..as a photographer we have to make decisions and not just rely on the camera to choose. ha, I do wish the Z6II could choose a bit better but when you think JUST a little, like what mode works best at what time...learn how to change modes quick and all, I feel the truly outstanding files are worth the little extra effort you may need to get focus. That said auto focus works GREAT actully but it's not like it will drive itself...you have to steer.. Now I'm talking about cars?...:) keep up the great work!!

"You could get lucky!" Nikon should use that on their marketing materials :-)

Excellent video Omar! Love your approach to using the camera and not resorting to comparisons to that other company starting with an S... ;) Oh and by the way, completely concur on the 70-200 f2.8 VR S lens. It's just phenomenal :)

Great topic. It made the difference for me to know and understand how my camera/s work and how/when to change my settings.

Thank you so much! I have watched so many videos on the best focus modes for Nikon Z6ii and am so glad I found yours! I wanted something specially for family photography. I love that you showed the camera view while using certain modes. That helped a bunch!!! Now to watch more of your videos. 🙌🏼

Love the Nikon colors!!

Man, dude - this is so helpful. I watched one of your other videos a while ago (a newer one than this I think), where you get us to set it up with the white, square, tracking box on one of the function buttons. I use this a lot, when my AFC eye box loses the eye, but I still need tracking. However, as you say, if it loses the eye, in eye tracking, then it kind of goes goofy looking for something that looks like an eye. I'm going to try that red square and let it do its thing. I shoot a lot of paid, fast moving events, so if this can make my hit rate better still, then that is a big plus.

Thank you for this video! Just got my z6ii 2 weeks ago and the menu is similar to my d750 but just enough different to give me pause. Taking it to a family shoot tonight!

This is where I think that nikon should eat their pride and put the focus mode selector lever on the back of the d700 on z,.. if you had a lever that you can quickly go through all focus modes without wasting a function button or going to the menu, it would make things easier.

what do think of nikon z6ii Af vs Fuji xt4 auto focus?..

14:49 deserves a comedy award🤣😂🤣🤣 I just watched it over and over again! Man! You're something else😂😂😂 Edit: in the heat of the moment I forgot to say that this was very useful👍 Just that Z6II "Eureka" moment stole the thunder of everything else😂

Gracias Omar. Tengo 3 dias con la z6ii y fue de gran syuda tu video!!

Amazing review, love it. This a real life one and that's what matters.

Thanks for the good and practical video with hands on and real life scenarios. Contrary to other videos on KZfaq, you give concrete examples with real life situations which helps people understand faster and easily inscribe it in our brains

After watching about 20 of your videos and liking all of them, finally subscribed 😬

as always, REALLY helpful. i am SO close to pulling the out the credit card and getting the Z6II. i am a very satisfied D750 user but do which i can use the mirrorless features and better AF modes on the Z. thanks for the effort and the sharing. I am an appreciative subscriber. thumbs up.

Hey Omar, thanks for the videos with Z6 II. You explain very well interesting and helpfull things.

Nice video. I have one doubt custom setting menu - AF-C is set to release and AF-s is set to focus. Is it correct or need to change ?

Great, helpful video, Omar. Thanks!

Hi Omar! I need to learn how did you master the way to focus the person body instead of the face using the rectangle? Please teach me how to do it and what aperture I need to make it work? Thanks in advanced!

No wonder my moving portraits suck. choosing the right AF mode, on the fly, is tough

great video BUT I wish you had walked through the actual setting and buttons to achieve this during a shoot. I am lost on that part... I am a visual learner and so not knowing how you are getting these menu options isn't helping me... some of my menu settings look different.

Great video for new mirrorless cameara users as well.

I shoot in continuous ficus with the back button. I was wondering why I wasn't getting a confirmation on the focus on my z6 II. Now I know. I took pictures at my daughter's play last week. I had to shoot at ISO 6400 most of the time to keep my shutter speed up. It was fine when they weren't moving much but I did get some blurry shots from time to time but not because of the focus. I think nearly every shot was in focus. Much improvement over my d750 I had. I used the small box many times because I didn't want it to pick up another person standing close to my daughter. I did her prom pictures with that camera and got some great shots but that was easy. The play was my first real test with it.

Omar, great videos and thanks for this one. we’d like a two minute update of this regarding subject tracking mode, please.

Watching your video(s), it's obvious to those who know, you know your shit. Subscribed.

Hey Omar I have z6ii and my friends has Sony a7iii. We have tested both with the same distance with 50mm 1.8 and when zoom in the Sony is wheyyy sharper🤷‍♀️

Super Great content as usual. Thanks for the tips Omar!

The main reason I returned my Z6 was the unreliable AF. I remember the day before I returned it I was trying to get some video of my daughter and the Z6 AF kept on latching to the chair behind her.

If your pic is not good enough, you are not close enough - Robert Capa . Always get as close as possible !!!!

Question: what if you only have one lens that came with the camera? I have the 24-70mm what do you do with that? Can you still do family portraits or portraits period? What is the 24 - 70mm lens for?

I agree, no camera is a "miracle worker". It's up to us. Hopefully, we can all get off the "camera battle" merry go round"!

New favorite channel

Man!! I love your videos….. Love from India

i use AFC Eye Af and when in trouble i have "Subject tracking" on F2 custom button...but gonna try the rectangle you use as second chance to see how it works for me..grear bideo btw

Wish Fuji and Nikon would steal Sony’s autofocus system 🤩🤓

how do you switch back from function button back to the face detection ? (i'm just learning as for now) simply choosing from menu or have shortcut?

I wish you made this video but for Z8.

Very timely series on Nikon, as a Z just joined my stable of Fujis. Gotta work on getting more fluid and intuitive with the focus options.

Omar wow bro how do u color grade your pictures for they are so beautiful...Grant us some tips man🤯🥺🥺

I know auto focus is a most but depth of field if wrong can ruin the great portrait.I think either learn to shooting like a machine gunner or a sniper it's the need of the hour both have their points ? The way to learn is to examine your own work along side other peoples work . Learn the camera all you are doing with the camera is collecting dater. Know light rooms capabilities or whatever program you use . I choose to stay as a life student of art , never a professional. How you label your self may add to your mistakes or your successes. In ways you miss most days.

Another excellent video. Thank you 👍🏻

Thanks for the show 🔥

Great real world examples. thanks.

It has pin point!! Want to try the pin point! 😎

I have same experience with z6ii after 10days of use :) AFC without green box confirmation is missing. Is R6 more reliable for auto eye focus? Btw: that z70-200 looks amazing, very sharp! I have still opportunity to decide which system to keep, z6 ii or R6. I have sold all my old gears recently, m50 crop sensor.

Could you explain what you might use for settings/auto focus settings if your subjects were in slightly different planes or slightly different depths?

I'm done with Nikon and their autofocus failures. I'm biting the bullet to move to Canon r6-2.

Great video, great pictures!

Not sure if you have spoken about it, nobody does, but the ISO in today's sensors, and I know because I review my AUTO shots and see the ISO it chose and its incredible the detail that remains above ISO 500. Nobody talks about ISO because they think its something you avoid. It's a way to get out of a low light situation, lean on it, and get results.

As photographer, would you say it would have been (much) easier with a Sony? Great channel by the way! All the best!

Question: Have you tried using the touch screen to move the focus point when using point focus, as opposed to eye tracking? If so, does either have a better result in your opinion, and or do you feel like that would free up your time to interact with the subject?

can the camera detect eyes of different people at the same time?

Its really good information❤

Nice vedeo Omar, as i am new to z6 ii family.

How do you get the red square when reviewing a photo?

How come you didn't use subject tracking for AFC? Even on AFS I really like how the box auto centers once it jumps off the object. Don't need to use a D pad, or Stick to move the focus point :) I got a Z6ii to expand, I only did landscape and macro. Since we have a baby girl I wanted to take great picture memories. Doing a baby photo shoot is so hard hahah, I have nooo idea what focus to use I'm always switching around, and the baby always on the move 98% of the time. Oh man I feel like I bit off way more than I could chew, but she just turned 1 so I bet it gets easier.

Thanks. That was very useful.

Nikon z6ii firmwre updated 1.50 release date?

plz plz plz tell these nikon people that there are failing big in one thing. they put these two fn buttons that to me are pretty much useless as far as what they allow me to set for them. how difficult is it to set the fn button, when pressed, to get to '' wide area auto focus L - people'' so I can quickly grab a portrait which otherwise I would miss. this is software and an upgrade can fix it. thank you

Was your camera updated with the latest update for nikon z6ii ime 1.20

Still I should upgrade to z6ii, I own z6. Maybe Nahh......... not now. Z6ii just like z6 replica..

Hi Omar Thanks for all the amazing videos and work One question there how does the Z6ii Af compare to XT4’s Af specially for moving subjects like kids? Thanks again

Thanks for your presentation, I have been following your content for a while. I will soon get the Nikon Zii but need some advice on my first Z lens. I have only about $1200 to work with and I think I have narrowed it down to these two, the the14-30 f4S and 24-70F4S, with the 24-200 being a third somewhat important lens. I mainly do landscapes and family, and my dog. Please advise...

Can you do a comparison between fuji film simulation and nikon picture control film simulation?

Thank you!!

Well , Nikon z af mods and how u need to switch between them still looks extremely uncomfortable against Canon or Sony. Working with z system all over the past year and still struggle with all this issues which some times make me super angry, as I can’t switch between mods enough fast and miss the moment. I really don’t understand why Nikon doesn’t allowed to make af-on button to activate central point as Canon did, and I need to press fn button on the back!!!!!!!

Hi! Great video Omar! I've recently bought a z6ii and it happens a strange issue: the camera always finds the eye of the model, and when I see the photo, I can see that in many photos the face is not in focus (another thing is in focus), but the camera shows the focus point on the reproduction menu over the eye. I mean: When I'm taking the photo, sometimes, the autofocus find the eye and I shoot and the camera shows later on the final photo the focus point confirmation over the eye, but actually the face is out of focus. It's my camera defective?

very nice tuto. do you mean activating wide red box, without eye detection, at middle of lcd is enough for good depth of field on eyes ? no need to move it to face to be sure ? do you use AF-ON back button focus. i did it first but so many buttons and not having green+beep in AF-S, i came back to half shutter press. do you set FN1 to subject tracking and FN2 to AF mode to quickly switch ? you don't mention subject tracking and how it would behave with respect to your red box. I tried on skate boarders but not easy.

Any news on the new fuji viltrox lenses dropping this year? Think they delayed the 13mm.

Very informative. 👍🥂

This was great! What firmware were you using? Sometimes the box drifted off their eye or face. With a non busy background which mode would you start in? Are you using back button focus? Great video!

Nikon D700 vs Z6 II. Which camera delivers the best colors? Thank you Omar!!!

Focus and recompose is heresy nowadays. That'll get you pitchforks and torches and a nice jog to the town limits.

No entiendo nada Omar; ¿Podrías poner subtítulos en español?. Muchas gracias.

The z6ii have a af touch focus like sony a7riii?