Focus area Selectable areas

The Shooting Menu (A(Auto) Mode)

Option

Description

 

 

Choose manually the focus position from 99 areas in the screen. This option is suited to situations in which the intended subject is relatively still and not positioned at the center of the frame.

Press the multi selector H, I, Jor Kto select one of 99 focus areas

x Manual displayed on the monitor’s focus- area selection screen, and shoot.

To adjust the following settings, press the kbutton to temporarily cancel focus area selection, and then adjust each setting.

-Flash mode, macro mode or self-timer

-Exposure compensation

To return to the focus area selection screen, press the k button again.

The camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame.

The focus area is always displayed at the center of the frame.

y Center

29m 0s9s

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Focus area

 

 

Subject tracking begins once you

 

 

select a subject to be focused on,

 

Subject

and the focus area will move and

s

follow the subject. See “Subject

tracking

Tracking Mode (Focusing on a

 

 

Moving Subject)” (E40).

End

BNotes on AF Area Mode

When the digital zoom is in effect, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame regardless of the applied AF area mode option.

In some rare cases of shooting subjects for which autofocus does not perform as expected (A31), the subject may not be in focus.

This feature may not be used in combination with certain features. See “Features That Cannot Be Used Simultaneously” (A63) for more information.

Section Reference

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