Thread: N900 Camera Images Hazy
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2010-06-07 , 08:57
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Originally Posted by maartenmk View Post
It is a feature, but not the one you mention. That would still allow focusing, even if you do not half-press first.
The idea is that by fully pressing the button quickly you can skip the autofocus, to make a picture more quickly. It is also present on the N82 (and N95?), but there you have to press really quickly to skip the focus (which works better imo).

Ajjara, try Live Focus to add a manual focus option. That makes the N900 a better macro camera than the N82, in my tests in any case.
It must be something I said cause the misunderstanding. I didn't say full-pressed shooting would not focus, half-press focusing is entire different thing from you've been describing.

The N900 focusing mechanism is averaging the entire focusing area, that means when you've too many objects within the focusing area, then the subject will not get the sharpest focus.

Also, in many case you may not want to put the subject in the centre. One-press-shooting in this situation will always cause the subject to out-focus.

That's the problem Ajjara might have encountered, thus my answer.

Fortunately, N900 allows focus-locking by half-pressing the button. Once the subject is focus-locked by half-pressing the button, you can move your camera around to change the position of your subject before full-pressing to shoot. As long as you don't move back and forth, the subject should stay in focus no matter where you put your subject.

Live focus is solving the problem with video recording focusing and LED controls. I'd be so earnest to introduce such a good app when I've given a chance, but in this case it's not quite reverent.

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Last edited by 9000; 2010-06-07 at 09:05.