I don't know what it does, but it is a feature of my E-20 and it works.
Let's the autofocus work at a closer distance.
Perhaps it is something as simple as the autofocus has a minimum distance to
ensure you don't shoot closely without realizing it. Oh heck, that's
stupid.
Guess I don't really know.
Tom
> At 04:13 PM 3/17/2003 +0800, Albert wrote:
> >Some of the new digital P&S's have a "macro" feature, which allows macro
> >photography.. who is this achieved? I don't think there's a free
> >floating element in the lenses to compensate for the closeness of the
objects..
> >
> >So I would love it if someone could shed some light on this.
> >...
>
> It's digital, so it can do ANYTHING :-)
>
> I don't know, may be it's similar to the macro mode to some of the cheap
> zoom lens? Still don't know how it's done of course. Someone else has to
> explain that. My eyes glaze over when I see the word Fourier transform :-)
>
>
> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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