Sony a7C Mirrorless Camera (Black) - Manual (Page 88)

Help Guide
Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera
ILCE-7M3 α7III
AF On
You can focus without pressing the shutter button halfway down. The settings for [Focus Mode] will be applied.
Hint
Set [ AF w/ shutter] to [Off] when you do not want to perform auto focusing using the shutter button.
Set [ AF w/ shutter], [ Pre-AF], and [ Eye-Start AF] to [Off] to focus at a specific shooting distance predicting the
position of the subject.
Related Topic
Custom Key (still image/movie/playback)
AF w/ shutter (still image)
Pre-AF (still image)
Eye-Start AF (still image)
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