DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Focus problem - is this a fault in the G7 camera

Started Dec 5, 2018 | Discussions thread
OP Brisn5757 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,540
Re: manual advice

Tim Reidy Productions wrote:

set the camera to aF then get your focus then set camera to MF and you will have the focus not changing if you leave your lens alone.

it may not solve every situation, but will solve some.

The only problem with this idea is that when video recording the subject is often changing it's distance from the camera. For example if I'm recording a parade then the float in the parade is a distance then gets very close to the camera when it passes by the camera and then distance as it goes further away.

However if the camera does start to chance focus on fixed distance objects then I quickly switch to manual focus once it has correcly focused again

Brian

 Brisn5757's gear list:Brisn5757's gear list
Olympus SP-570 UZ Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX70 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V Sony RX100 IV Canon EOS 300D +9 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow