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lilricky
May 24th, 2005, 05:36 PM
What is the criteria for the focus indicators to light in BB Pro. I've a lot of different thing with my MK2 and they light very sporadicaly. As far as I know I'm achieving focus lock. At least the indicator in the viewfinder is solid.
I'm using 1.1.3.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Chris Breeze
May 25th, 2005, 10:32 AM
The simple answer is BBPro displays this information when it is available in the shooting data of the image.

What's more difficult to answer is how the camera determines whether it is stored in the shooting data. If you use "One-shot" AF the data is stored. With AI Servo it just stores the outer ring of points. In manual focus nothing is stored. If you use CFn4 and the * button to activate the AF it only appears to store the data if the button is held down at the time of release. This is probably an over-simplification and may not be 100% accurate. You can setup the camera to display the focus points in playback and you should see the same info as displayed in BBPro.