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Understanding focus points and autofocus

Understanding focus points and autofocus

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Understanding focus points and autofocus

- Chances are when shooting photography, you're gonna rely upon the autofocus capabilities of your EM camera, now there are 81 focus targets available in the camera, but you don't have to necessarily use all of them. To see those focus points, I recommend simply pressing on the arrow pad, and it'll bring them up. You'll see in this case we now have the ability to move this around. For example, if I set it on the back here, and invoke focus, you see that the focus of our subject is changed because these two objects are about three feet apart. Now the display that you see may vary depending upon the lens that you're using, for example if you're using a manual lens, you won't see the autofocus controls, and some of the older lenses may not support all of the 81 targets, but typically when you're using an official micro four thirds standard lens, all 81 targets should be displayed. If you're using an older four thirds lens, not a micro four thirds lens, then you're typically only gonna…

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