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Tap to Focus - help me understand
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Because the lens has a relatively narrow depth of field (area where the image is more or less in focus), it's easy to take a picture where the person in the foreground is a blur but the tree in the background is in perfect focus. So, you tap the person's face, the camera chooses that as a focus point, and you have a good picture.
Or, more simply, it gives you more control over the image composition.
when you take a photo on the camera you tap where you want to photo to be sharp ie in focus
it is the same as when you look at something close the backgroud goes fuzzy and if you look somewhere far away you are not focused on the stuff close to you, the tap bit means you can centre a photo in the viewfinder and tap where you want the focus of the picture to be
read this http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/hd-video-recording.html and under the tap to focus bit (3 pics down) you can see a demo (it is the exact same for camera and video)
it is the same as when you look at something close the backgroud goes fuzzy and if you look somewhere far away you are not focused on the stuff close to you, the tap bit means you can centre a photo in the viewfinder and tap where you want the focus of the picture to be
read this http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/hd-video-recording.html and under the tap to focus bit (3 pics down) you can see a demo (it is the exact same for camera and video)
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If you wanted to take a picture with you subject off center, it's very helpful.
Like taking a pic of a person standing in the right 1/3rd of the shot, with the distant background taking up the remaining 2/3rds.
Without a way to "force" your camera to focus on what you want, it would simply default to focusing on the center of the shot, in this case being the background.
It also comes in VERY handy for "macro" shots. (very close-in subjects)
If you wanted to take a picture with you subject off center, it's very helpful.
Like taking a pic of a person standing in the right 1/3rd of the shot, with the distant background taking up the remaining 2/3rds.
Without a way to "force" your camera to focus on what you want, it would simply default to focusing on the center of the shot, in this case being the background.
It also comes in VERY handy for "macro" shots. (very close-in subjects)