Adjusting the Focus

NOTES

•Peaking/Magnification appears only on the camcorder screen. It will not appear on an external monitor connected to the camcorder and will not affect your recordings.

•You can use the [£OLED/VF Setup] >[Peaking] >[Peaking 1] and [Peaking 2] settings to set the color, gain and frequency of the two peaking levels independently of each other.

•When using the camcorder’s screen to focus:

-The camcorder features professional video scopes (A108). You can display the edge monitor to help you focus even more accurately.

-You can use peaking together with the edge monitor. In such case, the gain and frequency of the peaking effect will be adjusted automatically according to the gain settings of the edge monitor.

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Push AF

While using manual focus (MF, A83) or autofocus at a [Normal] or [Medium] speed (Normal AF, Medium AF, A81), press the PUSH AF button and hold it pressed down.

•Autofocus is temporarily activated at the highest speed (Instant AF) as long as you hold the PUSH AF button pressed down.

NOTES

• All the NOTES for the autofocus section (A82), apply also to ush AF.

•Push AF is not available when [~Camera Setup] >[AF Mode] > [Face AF] is set to [Face Only] and a face has not been detected in the picture.

Detecting and Focusing On Faces

The camcorder can detect a person’s face during autofocus mode, automatically focus on it, and even track it if the person moves. When there are a number of people in the picture, one person (with the white face detection frame) will be determined to be the main subject and the camcorder will focus on that person’s face. You can also change the person selected as main subject.

1 Open the [Face AF] submenu.

[~Camera Setup] >[AF Mode] >[Face AF]

2 Select the desired option and then press SET.

• or will appear on the left of the screen.

3 Point the camcorder at the subject.

[~Camera Setup]

[AF Mode]

[Face AF]

[Off]

•If there is more than one person in the picture, the camcorder will automatically select one person it determines is the main subject. The camcorder will indicate the main subject with a white face detection frame and other faces with gray frames.

•If necessary, push the joystick left/right to change the main subject when there is more than one person.