jmb63
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If you look closely at the "slider" that comes up, it has the usual infinity/(mountain) and close/(flower/macro) icons, and if you slide that between those it invokes the manual focus (MF), and if slid all the way it will revert back to AF...
It will "automatically focus" when stopping when it detects a great difference in object distance ( it will "hunt" for a second).
You CAN still touch the screen to focus...Needs to be in AF ( Auto Focus). One note: if you tap it too long, the exposure "circle" will come up though.
Manual focus is good for a few scenarios ( especially if you enable the "focus peaking" option to highlight the in-focus areas) Mainly it lets you keep a focus so it won't "hunt" for focus when stopping/starting as it will in AF
Another thing to remember is that it will keep the settings for each mode (stills/ video/movie/quickshots/etc) so if you select something like manual focus (MF) in say, video, that won't stay if you go back to still pictures but will if you go back to video and vice-versa...Just a thing to keep in mind so it won't mess up the next time if you don't want that setting again in that mode.
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