Settings Custom—Guide Menu

Custom Setting 3: AF-Area Mode

To choose how the focus area is selected when the focus-mode selector is set to AF, highlight AF- area mode in the CSM menu ( 135) and press the multi selector to the right. Press the multi selector up or down to highlight an option, then press to the right to make a selection.

Option

Description

 

User selects focus area manually (

 

 

66); cam-

 

 

 

 

era focuses on subject in selected focus area

Single

only. Use for relatively static compositions with

subjects that will stay in selected

focus area.

area1, 2

Also recommended with telephoto lenses or

 

 

when subject is poorly lit.

 

 

 

 

User selects focus area manually (

 

 

66), but

 

 

 

 

camera uses information from multiple focus

 

areas to determine focus. If subject leaves se-

lected focus area even briefly, camera will focus Dynamic based on information from other focus areas

area1 (focus area selected in viewfinder does not

change). Use when following erratically moving subjects and in other situations in which it is difficult to keep subject in selected focus area.

Closest

subjct3, 4

Camera automatically selects focus area con- taining subject closest to camera; active focus area highlighted when camera focuses ( 8). If subject leaves active focus area, camera will focus based on information from other focus areas. When AF-Sis selected for Custom Set-

ting 2 (Autofocus; 139), focus will lock once camera has focused. Prevents out-of-focus shots when photographing erratically moving subjects.

1 Control panel and viewfinder shown with center focus area selected.

2 Default for P, S, A, M, and

modes. Custom Setting 3 automatically reset to Single

area when mode dial rotated to .

3 Default for , , , ,

, and modes. Custom Setting 3 automatically reset to

Closest subjct when mode dial rotated to , , , , , or .

4 Active focus area displayed in viewfinder when camera focuses.

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