Disable Continuous Autofocus during Video Recording

[shengliang1981]

Hi, is there a way to disable the continuous autofocus during video recording? The continous autofocus is very annoying during video recording as the video consistently appear out of focus when during refocusing. There are alot of situations where continuous focusing is not required.

Can we have a new video focusing mode where the camera will only refocus to an area that is tapped on the screen? This is a very basic feature that is available in almost all other smartphones. Without this focusing mode, the video recording of the Z1 is 99% unusable although the phone has a very good sensor. As the Z1 is Sony's flagship smartphone, I hope that you can add this simple feature as a software update asap. Thanks.

[SergioPL1]

I agree! On Xperia P it was enough to turn off "face detection" on video but it doesn't help on Z1.

[angelifly]

Totally agree !

[marius.dudu]

Has anyone found how to set continuous autofocus to off when shooting video? Using "Object tracking" in Focus Mode will keep continuous autofocus on. I'm using Xperia Z1 Compact.

[JackMerson]

I choose the Object Tracking focus and my videos look amazing. I can usually just tap to focus and it did it fast.

[truepavan]

Is there any way to disable continuous auto focus? or at least any setting which can help getting a better video. In My xperia z1 compact , when i take a video, it will always hunt for the focus, result is Jurky video.

after lollipop upgrade also, things doesn't changed much.

so can anybody tell, any setting that can avoid this?

Thanks

Pavan