FOCUS AREA

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The N70'sautofocus system offers a choice of two focus areas: Wide and Spot.

While pressing focus area button, rotate command dial until the desired symbol r I for Wide Area or 0 for Spot Area- appears in LCD panel.

For flash photography

When built-in flash is activated or accessory Nikon Speedlight is turned on, Wide Area is automatically switched over to Spot Area. In this case, D blinks in LCD panel and OD appears inside viewfinder.

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o Wide Area AF

The Wide-Area focus brackets delineate the focus detecting area in the viewfinder. Subjects of sufficient brightness and detail can be detected within these brackets. In addition to general photography, autofocus using Wide-Area focus brackets is suited to action photography in which the moving subject requires a wide-range focus detection area.

However, focus detection may not be possible if the subject is too small to fully cover the Wide-Area focus brackets. If various subjects, each at a different distance, fall within the focus detection area, focus will be confirmed for a single subject as . follows:

For subjects of equal brightness: the closer one will be focused.

For subjects of unequal brightness: the brighter one will be focused .

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Nikon N70 instruction manual Focus Area, Wide Area AF, For flash photography