Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

k AF Area Mode

Use this option to determine where the camera focuses.

lAuto (default setting)

Camera automatically selects the focus area (1 of 5; c 6) containing the subject closest to the camera. The selected focus area is displayed when the shut- ter-release button is pressed halfway.

nCenter

AF area mode

Auto

Center

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Menus Setup and Playback, Shooting,

Center focus area is used. This option can be used in combination with AF lock to keep off-center subjects in focus.

lFocus Lock

To focus on off-center subjects when [Center] is selected for [AF area mode]: 1 Position the subject in the center of the frame.

2 Press the shutter-release button halfway.

• The focus indicator (p) and focus area turn green when the camera has focused on the subject.

3 Continue holding down the shutter-release button halfway and recompose the picture.

• Be sure that the distance between the camera and the subject does not change while focus is locked.

4 Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take the picture.

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kAutofocus

Autofocus may not perform as expected if the subject is very dark or moving rapidly; if there are objects of significantly differing levels of brightness in the scene (as when the sun is behind the subject, throwing their features into shadow); if the primary subject exhibits little contrast (as when the subject is generally the same color as the background); or if the scene contains several objects at differing distances from the camera (as when the primary subject is

80in a cage or behind a fence).