Focus Lock

To compose photographs with off-center subjects:

1Position the subject in the focus frame.

3D

2Focus.

Press the shutter button halfway to set fo- cus and exposure. Focus and exposure (and in C mode, parallax; pg. 15) will remain locked while the shutter button is pressed halfway (AF/AE lock).

Press

halfway

Repeat steps 1 and 2 as desired to refocus before taking the picture.

3Recompose the picture.

Keeping the shutter button pressed halfway, recompose the picture.

4Shoot.

Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take the picture.

Press the rest of the way down

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