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5.14 FOCUS AREA

Menu Position MENU  3 Focus Area

What it Does Lets you decide which of 4 focusing modes to use. (Does not
apply to movie mode.)

Recommended Setting Lock-on AF - Wide

All of the available focus areas
(including two that are not
selectable from this menu item)
appear in Figure 5-25.

5.14.1 WIDE
Basically “Wide” means the camera
gets to decide where the subject is
and therefore what to focus on. I
find that this, combined with Face
Detection, successfully identifies
my intended subject 99% of the
time. The Wide setting and how
the camera chooses a focus point
was covered in pretty good detail in
Section 3.4, but just as a reminder:
Figure 5-23 shows you the
autofocus points available in Focus Figure 5-23: Choosing an Autofocus
Area = Wide mode. When the selection scheme (above), and the 79
camera finds a subject, it will AF areas available to the camera
briefly illuminate (in green) all of when this variable is set to “Wide”
the AF points in front of the subject (below).
the camera has chosen.

TIP: According to Sony's manual, the camera will only use 61 AF points when the
following lenses are attached: SAL75300, SAL1118, SAL55200, SAL1855,
SAL18552, SAL55200-2, SAL30M28, SAL55300. And if you attach the famous

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