HP Photosmart M417, User Manual

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HP Photosmart M417/M517 User’s Manual
To focus the picture, release the Shutter button, re-frame
the subject for your picture, and then press the Shutter
button halfway down again.
If the
AF
viewfinder light continues to blink green and the
focus brackets continue to turn red after several tries, there
may not be enough contrast or light in the focus region.
Try using a technique called
Focus Lock to focus on a
higher-contrast or brighter object about the same distance
away, and then, without releasing the
Shutter button,
point the camera at the subject you were originally trying
to photograph (see
Using Focus Lock on page 37). You
can also simply turn on more light, if that is possible.
• The AF viewfinder light will blink green, the focus brackets
will turn red, and the Macro icon will blink in the Live
View screen. In this case, the camera detects that the
focus is closer than the normal range. The camera will still
take the picture, but the picture may be out of focus. To
focus the picture, either move farther away from the
subject you are trying to photograph, or set the camera to
the
Macro shooting mode (see Using the Shooting Modes
on page 42).
If the camera is set to the Macro shooting mode and the
camera cannot focus, the Live View screen displays a
blinking Macro icon, an error message, and the focus
brackets turn red. Both viewfinder lights will also blink. In
these cases, the camera will not take the picture.
If the subject for the picture is not within the Macro range
(10 to 80 cm or 4 to 32 in), either move farther away from
or closer to the subject, or set the camera to a shooting mode
other than
Macro
(see
Using the Shooting Modes
on
page 42).