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ML-L3 remote and advice on self portraits ?

Postby samester on Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:44 pm

howdy,

does the D70 remote trigger focussing prior to shutter release (if in AF-S mode)

been thinking that it would be handy to take a few self portraits when i'm oiut and about - would love to hear any words of wisdom.

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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:45 am

As far as I know... no.

My guess it that pre-focusing should become your friend in the near future.

However... it might... I just doubt it would.
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Postby samester on Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:59 am

didn't think so either- would be nice to have though.
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Postby MHD on Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:03 am

I would have to disagree...
Pressing the remote is the same as hitting the shutter on the body...
ie:
AF-on: AF is activated, Focus is attained and then and only then shutter is fired
AF-off (MF): Shutter is fired
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Postby Paul on Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:05 am

Just checked it with my EN-L3 remote in AF-S mode on M,A,S & P modes and it does auto focus every time. 8)
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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:14 am

Well I was wrong. Lol.
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Re: ML-L3 remote and advice on self portraits ?

Postby digitor on Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:10 pm

samester wrote:howdy,

does the D70 remote trigger focussing prior to shutter release (if in AF-S mode)

s


Yes and no - it depends. It can do it either way, which is a very useful feature. Have a look at the manual page 109, and all will become clear.

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Re: ML-L3 remote and advice on self portraits ?

Postby samester on Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:18 pm


Yes and no - it depends. It can do it either way, which is a very useful feature. Have a look at the manual page 109, and all will become clear.



don't have the remote yet mate, if it didn't focus i was planning on prefocussing and using the timer.

thank you all for the clarification.
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Re: ML-L3 remote and advice on self portraits ?

Postby digitor on Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:23 pm

samester wrote:

Yes and no - it depends. It can do it either way, which is a very useful feature. Have a look at the manual page 109, and all will become clear.



don't have the remote yet mate, if it didn't focus i was planning on prefocussing and using the timer.

thank you all for the clarification.


The info is in the D70 manual.

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Postby samester on Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:36 pm

thanks mate.

i really should have should have known that a one button remote doesn't need a 100+ page manual :oops:
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