Help Guide

Help Guide

Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera

ILCE-1 α1

Focusing using touch operations (Touch Focus)

[Touch Focus] allows you to specify a position where you want to focus using touch operations. Select MENU →

(Setup) → [Touch Operation] → [Touch Operation] → [On] beforehand.

This function is available when [

Focus Area] is set to one of following parameters:

[Wide]

[Zone]

[Center Fix]

[Tracking: Wide]

[Tracking: Zone]

[Tracking: Center Fix]

Specifying the position where you want to focus in the still image mode

When performing auto-focusing, you can specify the position where you want to focus using touch operations. After

touching the monitor and specifying a position, press the shutter button halfway down to focus.

Specifying the position where you want to focus in the movie recording mode

The camera will focus on the touched subject.

MENU →

(Setup) → [Touch Operation] → [Touch Func. in Shooting] → [Touch Focus].

Touch the monitor.

When shooting with the monitor, touch the position where you want to focus.

When shooting with the viewfinder, you can move the position of the focus by touching and dragging on the

monitor while looking through the viewfinder.

To cancel focusing with touch operations, touch (Touch focus release) icon or press the center of the control

wheel if shooting with the monitor, and press the center of the control wheel if shooting with the viewfinder.

Press the shutter button halfway down to focus.

Press the shutter button all the way down to shoot images.

Touch the subject on which you want to focus before or during recording.

When the focus mode is set to [Continuous AF], the focus mode temporarily switches to manual focus, and the

focus can be adjusted using the focus ring (spot focus). Spot focus is not available when shooting with the

viewfinder.

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