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ZS100: assigning auto-focus home to a control

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alcelc
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Re: ZS100: assigning auto-focus home to a control

Dear friend, if you are shooting with the good old Focus-recompose style using single focus point in the center, you might indeed disable the two touch AF features, i.e., Touch AF (when you are shooting with LCD) or Touch PAD AF (when you are shooting with evf).

P.61 of the pdf manual of ZS100/60

We can keep Touch Screen and Touch Tab active and no more accidental moving of the focus point. IMHO the well implemented Touch operation of Panasonic is very convenience for Menu diving, normal though LCD setting, operate the Q.Menu and to have 5 soft fn keys (and ad hoc soft keys in associated with the feature you are using) as well.

As you have found out that Direct Focus Area can change the focus point into customizable status, we can make use of this feature to enter a one time Touch AF operation (e.g. on a tripod etc, and reset it by activating the DFA again and hit DISP to return the focus point back to the center later) without messing with the Touch AF setting in Menu.

Happy shooting.

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