Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

---

More free-form experimentation to determine what factors affect Nikon Z6/Z7's Eye/Face Detect AF feature. In this video I experiment with exposure, noise, skin color, selective blur, and various skin textures.

0:00 - Exposure/Contrast
2:22 - Noise
3:13 - Skin Color
4:49 - Skin Texture (Selective Blur)
11:01 - Skin Texture (Emboss Filter)
14:01 - Skin Texture (Oil Paint Filter)
15:34 - Skin Texture (Ripple Filter)
16:23 - Skin Texture (Mosaic Filter)

• Red outline means no face or eyes or detected
• Large yellow outline means a face is detected but not eyes
• Small yellow outlines means an eye is detected
• Alternating between a small and large yellow box means the camera is intermittently detecting eyes vs face

Credits:
Photo of man by Ludvig Wiese on Unsplash