On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Per Nordenberg wrote:
>
> Ken, I can tell you there is no indication in the viewfinder. It has fouled
> me more than once when I accidently engaged the power focus. Perhaps I must
> learn to read the LCD display at the back better.
> I discovered another peculiar thing last summer when I was shooting (no, not
> with a gun) the bears in the zoo where I work. When the flash is up there is
> no way you can engage the spot meter. At first I thought it was a
> malfunction, but after having checked in the manual I realized that it was
> not. There is a small note which says: "When the flash is flipped up, or the
> Night Scene mode is engaged, the camera does not perform spot metering." Why
> is that?
> A tip when autofocus has a hard time locking on a subject is to hold the
> camera vertically to obtain a focus lock, and then while depressing the
> shutter release button halfway switch back to horizontal. But this you
> probably already know from your IS-1 days Ken? There are quite a few times
> when I have had to use this, even when there were no obvious reason why a
> focus lock should be difficult in horizontal. The AF on IS-3 also seems to
> have a hard time focusing on small objects like birds and aircrafts when the
> sky is used as a background. There seems to be no other solution to this
> problem than to engage the power focus. In a situation where there is very
> little time you do not want to take your eyes from the viewfinder and check
> the LCD display at the back if it has been engaged. By the time you have
> raised the camera again the birds or the planes are most probably gone. Of
> course one can have the power focus engaged from the beginning, but when AF
> is working fine on ground level objects who thinks of that?
> This was a few problems that I have had with this camera, but usually it
> works just fine. With the G-40 optional flash there is all the flash power
> one can possibly need.
Isn't there a manual focus override on the camera? Without it, it would be
a P&S with shutter control, only.
OMer
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