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RE: [OM] IS-3DLX -- Day One

Subject: RE: [OM] IS-3DLX -- Day One
From: Omer Nezih Gerek <gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:50:07 +0300 (EET)
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Per Nordenberg wrote:
> 
> Ken, I can tell you there is no indication in the viewfinder. It has fouled 
> me more than once when I accidently engaged the power focus. Perhaps I must 
> learn to read the LCD display at the back better. 
> I discovered another peculiar thing last summer when I was shooting (no, not 
> with a gun) the bears in the zoo where I work. When the flash is up there is 
> no way you can engage the spot meter. At first I thought it was a 
> malfunction, but after having checked in the manual I realized that it was 
> not. There is a small note which says: "When the flash is flipped up, or the 
> Night Scene mode is engaged, the camera does not perform spot metering." Why 
> is that?
> A tip when autofocus has a hard time locking on a subject is to hold the 
> camera vertically to obtain a focus lock, and then while depressing the 
> shutter release button halfway switch back to horizontal. But this you 
> probably already know from your IS-1 days Ken? There are quite a few times 
> when I have had to use this, even when there were no obvious reason why a 
> focus lock should be difficult in horizontal. The AF on IS-3 also seems to 
> have a hard time focusing on small objects like birds and aircrafts when the 
> sky is used as a background. There seems to be no other solution to this 
> problem than to engage the power focus. In a situation where there is very 
> little time you do not want to take your eyes from the viewfinder and check 
> the LCD display at the back if it has been engaged. By the time you have 
> raised the camera again the birds or the planes are most probably gone. Of 
> course one can have the power focus engaged from the beginning, but when AF 
> is working fine on ground level objects who thinks of that?
> This was a few problems that I have had with this camera, but usually it 
> works just fine. With the G-40 optional flash there is all the flash power 
> one can possibly need.

Isn't there a manual focus override on the camera? Without it, it would be
a P&S with shutter control, only.

OMer


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