The spot AF is used for selective focusing. Both focus and exposure are determined with the spot focus area. When auto reset (p. 55) is active, the spot AF area will reset to the wide focus frame when the camera is turned off. The spot focus area can be used with movie recording. When used with the digital zoom (p. 59), spot focus area is enlarged.
1 | Press and hold the center button of the controller (1) to | |
| display the spot focus area; the center button switches | |
| between the spot and wide AF areas. | |
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| Place the subject inside the spot focus area (2) and |
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| pressing the |
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| to lock the focus and the exposure. Focus lock (p. |
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| 30) is active for |
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| signals (p. 31) will confirm the image is in focus. |
2 | 3 | Press the shutter release button all the way down |
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| When the LCD monitor is off, the camera cannot |
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| be switched between wide and spot AF; the last |
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| AF mode set will be active. When the live image |
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| only display is used, switching between the wide |
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| and spot AF modes resets the display mode to full. |
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