Aye, there's an action part called "center camera on character permanently". Set to "current character" & tick the "clear centering" box to stop the camera automatically trying to center on the playable character. You can reenable centering with the same action part, but leave the "clear centering" box unchecked.
Alternatively with Lua script & the custom action part event handler/listener you could create an automated system, but I'm not going to explain how to do that as it's about 3:30 am & it's somewhat complicated & involves a fair bit of work.