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Chapter2:TakingPicturesandRecordingVideoClips
Taking Still Pictures
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Using Auto Focus
Press the shutter release button halfway down to set the focus and exposure.
The camera will automatically focus on the subject in the centre of the frame.
1
Frame your subject with the viewfinder or
the LCD monitor. Slightly press the shutter
release button halfway down and hold it to
set the focus and exposure.
2
You will hear a sound, and indicator light
when the auto focus is set.
Note : Different colours of focus brackets stand for
different focus condition.
AF success When colour of focus bracket is
changed from "white" to "green".
AF fail When colour of focus bracket is
changed from "white" to "red" .
3
Press the shutter release button all the way
down to take the picture.
Note: Auto focus might fail in some circumstance:
* When you shoot behind a sheet of glass.
* When you shoot subjects that have low
contrast in colour (eg: sky, white walls and so on).
* When there is a long distance between
two subjects in the same frame (the camera
might be misled to focus on the wrong
subject).
* When there is only horizontal lines in the
frame.