Using the focus brackets – HP Photosmart 730 series User Manual

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NOTE

If you change other camera settings, icons for those

settings will also be displayed across the top and bottom

of the

Live View

screen. For more information, see

Advanced capture settings

on page 37.

Using the focus brackets

The two brackets in the middle of the

Live View

screen show the

focus region for the picture you are taking. When you press the

Shutter

button halfway down, the camera uses this focus region

to measure and then lock the focus using this region. This is

called

Focus Lock.

The focus brackets turn green in the

Live View

screen and the

viewfinder light turns on solid green when the image is in

focus and the camera can lock the focus. However, the focus

brackets turn red and the

viewfinder light blinks green when

the camera is unable to focus.
If the focus brackets turn red and the

viewfinder light blinks,

release the

Shutter

button, re-frame the subject for your picture,

and then press the

Shutter

button halfway down again. If the

camera still cannot focus after several tries, the lighting may be

too low, or there may not be enough contrast in the focus

region. Try using

Focus Lock

to focus on an object about the

same distance away but in a higher-contrast region, then point

the camera at the object you were originally trying to

photograph.

Battery level (actual icon shown depends on the

state of your camera batteries; see

Managing

batteries

on page 99).

Focus brackets (see the next section,

Using the focus

brackets

Icon Description