This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Want to focus your camera simply by looking at a particular area of the viewfinder? If you’re a Sony shooter, you might be enjoying that feature as early as next year. The company is reportedly working on building Eye Tracking autofocus into its cameras, with the initial version arriving in a flagship camera sometime in 2014.sonyalpharumors writes that that the new technology might be one of the next big things from Sony:
The next key tech that may appear in this crucial year is Eye Tracking AF: Sony is considering to implement that feature on their upcoming flagship in 2014. They call it “Eye controlled Focus System”. This feature of the camera will track objects using some infrared sensors in the viewfinder following the eye movement.
The advantage is the rapid change/move of focus points (e.g. from the middle to the border). The biggest disadvantage is that you will have to calibrate your eye for this to work properly. Also this will only work using the viewfinder, it will not work using LiveView on the display. The feature can be enabled/disabled and will have a memory (calibration data) for 3 users.
They also write that while initial tests …
By: Michael Zhang
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