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Birma and Ursamajor Thank you for the recommended reading on my Sony camera. I shall certainly take a look at his work. Clearly I have found this Forum very useful and I have only been a member for a few days. When I get some pictures worthy of putting in front of a bunch of much more experienced ph...

David and Dusty By accident I discovered how to reach the very corner squares in the focus field. By pressing combinations of UP/DOWN and LEFT/RIGHT arrows. I have to say that the User Manual nowhere near adaquately describes fully how to operate this feature. You have restored my belief in Sony as ...

Dusty
Thanks for your comments. I think you are telling me the same cure as David is. If you have any suggestions for selecting the other four points in the focus field I will be delighted to hear them.

David
Bingo!! we are getting there. I can now select any of the 5 inner squares in the focus field with the camera in 'LV' and 'OVF' operating modes. Thanks for getting me there. The last remaining problem is how can I select the four focus squares in the four corners of the Focus field?

Thanks for that Dusty, I can get to the stage where I have the three modes for AF on the rear screen and the 'Local' is highlighted in red. I select it by pressing the AF button in the middle of the arrow ring. The symbol for 'Local' mode then appears briefly in the middle of the screen and soon rep...

David,
I am working in 'P' mode and I can get as far as the selection of 'Local' from the three options for AF. Now, I am not familiar with the meaning of PASM so I can't go any further. Please will you explain the PASM abbreviation.

Many Thanks

David, What you describe is true for working in LV mode except that I cannot select any of the four focus zones in the corners of the focus field, only the five central zones. When the camera is switched to OVF mode, I fail to get any means of selecting the focus zone and when I half press the shutt...

Hi Birma - My a550 has a switch that changes the viewing mode between OVF and LV. Thanks to you I have got the 'Local' focus feature to partially work in LV, but I am still struggling to understand how to get it to work in OVF. Thanks for your help. As you say we need someone who has an a500 or a550...

Hi Birma, Thanks for your prompt reply. I have been trying to get this feature to work in OVF mode as that is my preferred mode. Having read your reply, I have tried doing it in 'Live View' and used the menu selector beside the rear screen and was able to move the focusing 'square' around the four t...

AF Areas using a Sony a550 I have recently bought a Sony a550 and have been gradually working my way through the Instruction Manual to get to grips with all the features the camera has to offer. There is one feature that I cannot get to work. Under the heading of "Selecting the Focus Area"...