I'm quite sure that the last time I was using Active Track in photo mode a few months ago, the camera lost the subject after taking a shot. This was annoying but more or less understandable, as I was under the impression that the main camera was used for tracking, and closing the shutter for taking a photo would make it lose the subject.

Playing around with the active track feature yesterday, I was surprised to see that it works flawlessly in photo mode! I was tracking a sailboat at sunset, and the camera stayed glued on it while I was taking photo after photo. Brilliant!

Is this a newly added feature or was it always working that way?

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Very interesting!  
A really good feature!  
Sometimes it would be really nice if all new  were also shown...
... but if one or the other discovers something and describes it, at least it doesn't get completely lost...