Focusing after dark

[Rick50]

Something new discovered here. If you use back button focus like I do then the recording of the focus point is disabled. Makes sense as it is expected you focus and then move the camera before hitting the shutter. But if you enable the shutter button half way down focus (default) and press the shutter half way causing it to focus and then move the camera to adjust your framing the recorded focus point also moves giving an incorrect reading. I'm beginning to think this is sort of useless for me.

I do like the focus point adjustment using the rear button (very right one) and the wheel plus M-fn button and this could come in handy.

On a tripod I switch to Manual focus and use the Live view screen with a Hoodman viewing hood. I gives a good view even when it's dark out. When it's light out the Hoodman allows viewing the screen which gets wiped out by the sun. You can move the rectangle around the screen before zooming in and focus anywhere in the scene very accurately.