Unified Camera Tool - newbie question

Maybe this isnt strange but the UniCam tool is acting odd to me.
Layers:
1 - camera
2 - shape - 3D
3 - Text - 3D
When i use the unicam tool the axis that it rotaes on is semmingly the imaginary tripod the cam is on. It use to act like the rotate tool in c4d which orbits the center of the world or the object selected.
In tutorials i see that the left click button orbits the elements of the comp.
Is there a setting that needs to be click so that i can make the cam orbit the comp elements?

Wait... the UniCam tool is view sensitive and once i switched to a custom view, I got the desired behavior.

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