@dawalk I used my iPhone, a Panasonic lumix compact Point and shoot with a 20x zoom and a canon powershot SX60 bridge camera but 80% of my photos were taken with the compact camera
@olivetreeann I found it difficult to focus properly. When I take photos with my compact camera and half press the shoot button, I get a green square covering everything in focus but with the XS60 I only get a tiny square and that’s the only bit in focus. Some photos turned out great but most were either completely out of focus or only had a small part in focus
@kjarn It sounds like they changed that a bit from my version. I do have the square, but if I keep pressing half way, the camera keeps focusing until I'm satisfied. I generally shoot in AV too- I don't know if that makes a difference on how the camera focuses or not. But I can see where that would be extremely frustrating- especially when you can't go back and do it over again.. "Excuse me Mr. Lion, could you just go back in the bush and saunter towards my camera again?" !!
@olivetreeann the camera does keep focusing until I’m satisfied and then when I look at the photo later only where the green square was is in perfect focus. I don’t know how to make the square bigger so it gets the whole animal in focus. Luckily I also took lots of photos with my lumix point and shoot and those photos are great
@kjarn Hmmmm- I wonder if you typed that in question form in google if you'd get answers from other people who've had the same thing happen. And I also wonder if there's a way you can set more than one focal point- you know I'll have to check and see if it's in my manual. I'm sure the difference isn't that great between our models.
@olivetreeann we did try google while we were in Africa but the internet was so poor that we didn’t get very far. I probably should get myself a manual now that I’m home, when I get around to it.
@kjarn I did a quick scan through my manual (they are free on line to download which is great) and found a couple different aspects to focusing. One setting in the menu with the camera icon (AF Frame) gives you three options (focusing on a face, auto tracking- focusing on moving subject, and flexizone which gives you the option to choose what you want to focus on). The Manual setting also has different focusing options- landscape (which is probably equivalent to a wide angle lens), macro (self-explanatory!) and I think a third which is escaping me now but is probably another face-detector type setting. Anyway- reading the manual is really a good idea. I'm sure there's some differences on your menu but I'm thinking you want the flexizone focus activated on your camera. I hope this info steers you in the right direction. I am not technologically savvy when it comes to these things!
@olivetreeann thank you so much for doing that for me. I followed your advice and changed the AF to flexizone and I’d love to say it helped but it didn’t. The little green square remained a little green square and in 50% of shots only where the little green square was, was in focus - the other 50% were completely out of focus. Somehow I don’t think it’s a fault with the camera, I definitely think it’s the user! 😩
@kjarn No trouble Kathy- it's good for me to go through the manual too. My guess is that Flexizone is still somewhat fixed, but it reads where you point the camera first rather than having everything in focus all the time which is why the green box remains. My model does not have the green box. But, I don't know, this really sounds like something in the camera is not functioning right because there should be at least one setting where most of the picture is in focus rather than one fixed and limited focal point. Did you buy it at a camera shop? If so, I'd go in and talk to one of the sales people about your problem- maybe even bring an example along. I really don't think it's you!
@olivetreeann thank you for all your help. The green square means it is in focus, the square is white or blue when not in focus. I think a visit to the camera shop is the next thing to do, I don't have any examples as I delete any thing thats out of focus, although I could take some more
October 5th, 2018
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