Minolta Minolta, Maxxum, Dynax 7 manual AF Illuminator, How to Lock the Local/Spot Focus Area

FOCUS AREA

How to Lock the Local/Spot Focus Area

1. Turn the wide/local focus area switch to local, and select the focus area you want to lock.

2. Turn the wide/local focus-area switch to lock.

How to Lock the Wide Focus Area

1. Turn the wide/local focus area switch to wide.

2. Turn the wide/local focus-area switch to lock.

•After taking the picture, the focus area remains locked.

•When the wide/local focus-area switch is locked, pressing the focus- area selector or the spot-AF button doesn’t activate the focus.

AF ILLUMINATOR

In low-light/low subject contrast situa- tions, the AF illuminator automatically projects a pattern of lines onto the subject for the camera’s AF sensors to focus on.

•Do not to obstruct the AF illuminator.

•AF illuminator works for the center focus area only.

•The range of the AF illuminator is 0.7 – 7.0 meters (2.3 – 23.0 ft.).

•The AF illuminator will not fire in continuous autofocus mode.

•The AF illuminator may not operate with 300mm or longer single focal length lenses.

•The AF illuminator will not operate with 3x-1x Macro Zoom.

•When an accessory flash is attached, its AF illuminator may be active in place of the camera’s AF illuminator.

•AF illuminator can be canceled by Custom 21-2 (p. 176).

FOCUSING

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