Sony WX350 focussing

Old Engineer said:

Hi, I need advice on my new WX350 if anyone can help me please.

I've found that the camera will - nearly always - fail to focus. I've tried P and I and I+ modes, wide and centre focus, resetting defaults and removing the battery/rebooting. I even tried studying the manual.

But if I power it down and then back up again, straight away or within a minute or so, then it's fine.

I feel I must be doing something dumb, can anyone tell me what it is?

Thanks in anticipation ...

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• Is the battery fully charged? Have you tried another battery (if you have one)?
• Is the camera set to manual focus?
• Is the camera set to continuous focus or tracking focus?
• Is the light too low for the camera to focus?
• Are you trying to focus on something with too little contrast?

Old Engineer said:

Sorry, I think I accidentally pressed send or maybe delete on the iPad although I do believe it is possessed by demons. So retyping the message.

Thanks to Snow Crow and Chris R for your advice, I've tried some more experimentation now. The battery has been through a couple of charge cycles and seems to behave normally. I've taken hundreds of snaps now in different light and contrast situations and that makes no difference. I'm not so sure about the focus settings. I've tried wide and centre (is that Sony-speak for continuous and tracking?) but I've not found any manual focus function to try in the sense of me actually focussing it rather than part-pressing the shutter button to tell it to focus itself.

On power-up the screen shows the view but out of focus. Part-pressing the shutter does nothing. I have found that if I tweak the zoom lever the screen comes momentarily into focus but then softens out again. But after powering down and up again I get the out of focus view and part-pressing the shutter brings it into focus, as I assume it should.

Any further help on what I should do with the focus controls or settings would be gratefully received....

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