Owner's Manual

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When Autofocus Fails
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The camera might not be able to focus the following types of subjects:
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Low-contrast sUbjects
Example: Blue
sky,
solid-color walls, etc.
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Subjects
in
low light.
9 Extremely backlit reflective subjects
Example: Car with a reflective body, etc.
9 Overlapping near and far objects
Example: Animal
in
a cage, etc.
Repetitive patterns
Example: Skyscraper windows, computer keyboards, etc.
In
such cases, do one of the following:
1.
Focus
an
object at the same distance as the subject and lock the
focus before recomposing. (p.42)
2.
Set the lens focus mode switch to <MF> and focus manually.
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If
an
Extender (optional)
is
attached and the maximum aperture
of
the lens
is f/5.6 or smaller (larger flnumber), AF will not be possible. For details, see
the Extender's instruction manual.
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