Kodak DCS500 manual Difficult Subjects for Autofocus

Difficult Subjects for Autofocus

This camera’s autofocus system can quickly focus most subjects with the high-precision Multi-BASIS (Base-Stored Image Sensor) AF sensor equipped with five focusing points as shown below. However, the system may have difficulty focusing the subjects listed below. When autofocus is impossible, the green in-focus indicator will blink in the viewfinder.

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Cross Sensor

Position of individual sensor of BASIS

Typical low-contrast subject

Low contrast subjects (misty scenes, light-colored or white objects)

Subjects in extremely low-light situations (a dark room, night scenes)

Subjects in extremely strong backlight, or with bright spectral reflections (shiny metal, snow, ice, surface of a lake)

Subjects with an object in front of them (caged zoo animals)

Subjects having generally horizontal patterns (only when using the center focusing point, when using lenses with maximum aperture smaller than f/2.8)

Subjects having generally vertical patterns (only when using focusing points other than the center)

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