Owner's Manual

Using AF to Focus *
-- Live Mode and Live~ (Face Detection) Mode Notes
Shooting conditions which can make focusing difficult:
.. Low-contrast subjects such as the blu~skyand solid-color, flat surfaces.
• Subjects
in low light.
• Stripes and other patterns where there
is contrast onlyiothe horizontal
direction.
• Under a light source whose brightness, color, or pattern keeps changing.
• Night scenes or points of light.
• Under fluorescent lighting or when the image flickers.
• Extremely small subjects.
• Subjects at the edge
of the picture.
• Subjects strongly reflecting light.
• The AF point covers both a near and faraway subject (such
as an animal
in a cage).
• Subjects which keep moving within the AF point and cannot keep still
due to camera shake
or subject blur.
• A subject approaching or moving away from the camera.
* Autofocusing while the subject is way out of focus.
• Soft focus effect is applied with a soft focus lens.
• A special effects filter is used.
[lI • In the Live mode orUve~ (face detection) mode, if you want to shoot a
peripheral subject and the target subject
is noUn focusiaim the cehter
AF point
over the subjectto focus, then take the picture.
• The external Speedlite will
notemittheAF .. assist beam.
• Autofocus will not work with the release button on Remote Switch RS-
80N3··and·Timer Remote Controller TC .. 80N3 (both. sold separately}.
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