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Thanks everyone! I'm a total newbie at this, so pardon my ignorance! 
Good luck.
Francisco
Regarding hyperfocal, I tried reducing the MF distance to 2 mt like
the previous poster said, but not much difference. I really think
my problem is hand-shake and not the actual focusing, because the
shutter speed is automatically set to 1 sec. Here's a couple of
tests I just did:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0255503101/img_0111.jpg
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0255503101/img_0112.jpg
What do you think, camera shake or bad focusing?
As written it does not work. Do this to get it to work, but it is
not a very robust method. Hyperfocal is better IMO for dark/low
light focus situations.
I did this in aperture priority mode and tried this in a dark room
and it only [sort of] works on close subjects around 3-5 feet with
horiz/vert lines to help focus lock onto:
assign jump button to AFL
Set flash=on, redeye=on, flash pop-up=on.
focus on a subject preferably one with horiz or vert lines to help
with focus lock and half-press the shutter button - now while
holding the shutter half-pressed hit the jump button to initiate
AFL and repeat pressing of the jump button until you get a focus
lock indicated by a green square in the EVF.
With these settings in place, and the flash up, the red-eye
reduction lamp will light and stay lit to facilitate illuminating
your subject and attaining focus lock but the range is quite short.
It often takes several hits of the jump button to allow focus lock
via AFL.
Regarding hyperfocal - please be aware that manual focus setting
will be lost whenever the power cycles on the camera, and when the
LCD/EVF turns off, ie due to power management. So if you set up
hyperfocal in your Custom settings and lose MF, you can turn the
mode dial out of C to any other mode and then return it to C to
reimplement your saved settings with MF back in place - or you can
just stay in C and set MF again to the desired range. You should be
OK with 7.82 feet or just a bit farther, ie 10 feet as I have read
that hyperfocal settings are best erred on the far side of the
desired focus setting to allow for sharp focus out to infinity.
This will push out you min distance for focus but only by about one
foot with f2.8 and 5.8mm focal length.
HTH
--I'm having some difficulties using a couple of tips concerning
low-light focus, more preciselly these 2:
"Low Light: ""Any prosumer digicam is going to have difficulty in
low-light except for sony cameras, and even those cameras have
difficulty. The best thing to do is manual focus on your subject
when it is too dim for autofocus. There is a trick though with the
S1. Basically if you set the custom button on the S1 to Auto focus
lock and then turn on the Red eye reduction, you can have an AF
Assist Illuminator. Just use the custom button to focus and whalla,
your subject is in focus! It works up to about 3-5 feet. I've tried
it in complete darkness and it works amazingly!"""
reduction only fires when you actually shoot the photo, you need to
- I'm not quite sure if I understood how this works... the red-eye
focus before that, so how exactly does it serve has an AF assist
lamp? confused:
"Use hyperfocal. Use Av, set to f2.8, set manual focus to 10', zoom
out all the way and everything from 4.5' to infinity will be in
focus. No focusing needed so it'll be fast. Try in a completely
dark room. Save as Custom setting and you're all set for
Halloween-type pics. If the subject is closer than 4.5', you should
be able to focus on it the 'regular' way."
sure if the problem is incorrect focus or camera shake... :~
- I've tried this, but all I get is blurry photos. Now, I'm not
I know these are probably very ridiculous questions, but I'd really
apreciate if someone could help me out on this!
Canon S1 IS
Keep on Shooting!
