Focus Lock

To compose photographs with off-center subjects:

1Position the subject in the focus frame.

2Focus.

Press the shutter button halfway to set fo- cus and exposure. Focus and exposure will remain locked while the shutter button is pressed halfway (AF/AE lock; note that if ex- posure is currently locked using the AE-Lbut- ton as described on page 26, pressing the shutter button halfway will lock focus only).

Press halfway

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

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Recompose the picture.

Keeping the shutter button pressed halfway, recompose the picture.

Shoot.

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

Press the rest of the way down

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