What have people found to be the best focus settings to lock focus or track an animals eye? I’m having the hardest time getting confirmation if I have my OM-1 is tracking the eye of animals correctly! I was testing the settings for cat/dog (animal) tracking, trying to get the best setup for animals/wildlife, and using my dog as he ran around as my subject. I could never get confirmation on whether it was tracking the eye or not! Honestly, no matter what setting I changed the autofocus seemed to have a mind of its own! Animal subject detection on, I almost always had a white rectangle around my dog. At times I would get a white rectangle around his eye, but rarely would i get the green rectangle confirming that I had locked focus on the eye. The rare times I did, it wouldn’t stay and often went away when I half held the shutter. This was even the case when I used the smallest focus box and used the joystick to place the focal point on his eye when he was sitting still!!!! (I even overexposed the image to try and get as much contrast with the eye as possible against white snow).I played around with different settings for focus sensitivity and didn’t notice too much of a difference. I changed the focus area (e.g. All, small, mid, Large, etc.) and didn’t notice much difference. I played around with how the focus frame is represented (e.g. Off, On1, or On2). Heck, at times the green focus boxes (when I had the focus frames set to On2) would even confirm focus out of the subject detection white box and totally away from my focus area! I switched between CAF and CAF + Tracking. CAF+ tracking seemed to be stickier to his body, but still never snapped to his eye when his eye was clearly visible. Even in CAF+Tracking, I would see the white focus box around his body (informing me the camera recognized an animal body) and then see the smaller rectangle around his eye (informing me the camera recognized an eye), but no matter how much I “pumped” the focus, it would never latch onto his eye. I was lucky to have it stick to his body.Honestly, The AF just seemed to have a mind of its own and would focus anywhere it wanted within the bigger white rectangle of the animals recognized body…and again, at times focus somewhere outside that white subject rectangle and even away from my set focus area. I had better luck turning off all subject recognition, switching to single point AF, using the smallest focus box and joystick, and placing the focus area on his eye routinely.I thought the animal tracking was supposed to better than what I’m experiencing. What am I doing wrong here?TIA!!!

First off, you should not use CAF + Tracking with Subject Detect. Subject AI looks for the subject in each frame at a rapid rate and does not track anything.So Tracking when subject AI is turned off, and plain CAF for Subject AI. This has been confirmed by OMDS engineers.Secondly, I have never seen the square turn green in Subject Detect. I keep AF-ON pressed (in CAF) and shoot short bursts. Eye detection turns on/off periodically as it finds the subject. You might have a fast dog, or perhaps there isn't much contrast between the face and eye, or perhaps the lighting was not helpful. In any event, I have never seen the squares turn green to confirm focus. But if you see a rectangle, that means that the camera thinks it has found the subject.I wish I could have been more helpful. I've found Subject AI to be very effective, even with slow lenses like my Panasonic 20mm. Never had to try any odd settings.