Setting Description

Super Macro Use when taking close-up pictures of subjects less than 0.18 m (7 in) away. In this setting, the camera will not take a picture if it cannot find focus (the AF viewfinder light blinks green and the focus brackets turn red in the Live View screen). Auto focus has a distance range of 0.06 m to 0.25 m (2.5 to 10 in).

Understanding the Focus Search Priority

When the camera is set to Normal Focus or Macro focus, it begins searching for focus from the last focus position.

However, you can use the buttons to change this behavior. This feature is useful when there are multiple objects at different distances in the focus region.

zHolding the button while pressing the Shutter halfway down causes the camera to begin searching for focus from the farthest position (infinity in Normal Focus, 0.4 m in Macro, and 0.18 m in Super Macro), thus making the camera more likely to focus on an object in the background.

zHolding the button while pressing the Shutter halfway down causes the camera to begin searching for focus from the nearest position (0.4 m in Normal Focus, 0.18 m in Macro, and 0.06 m in Super Macro), thus making the camera more likely to focus on an object in the foreground.

Chapter 2: Taking Pictures and Recording Video Clips

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