When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Autofocus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofocus

    Phase-detection autofocus "sees" through window glasses without problems and is much more accurate, but it does not work in low-light conditions or on surfaces without contrasts or with repeating patterns. A very common example of combined usage is the phase-detection auto-focus system used in single-lens reflex cameras since the 1985s. The ...

  3. Focus stealing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stealing

    Microsoft Windows-based systems use pop-up dialogue boxes which can steal focus from the current application.On versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 7, there is a user setting that will by default prevent a cooperative application from stealing focus when launching another program or popping up a new window or dialogue box. [2]

  4. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

    help.aol.com/articles/aol-desktop-troubleshooting

    • Within your address book, type in your contact using the Quick Find search bar. There may be times your contact is not displayed in the same order as before. • If the issue still exists, proceed to the next step. Compose/Write email window • Open a new email by clicking the Write button on the toolbar.

  5. Focus (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(computing)

    Many desktops also allow the focus to be changed with the keyboard. By convention, the Tab ↹ key is used to move the focus to the next focusable component and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ to the previous one. When graphical interfaces were first introduced, many computers did not have mice, so this alternative was necessary.

  6. Fixed-focus lens - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-focus_lens

    Fixed focus can be a less expensive alternative to autofocus, which requires electronics, moving parts, and power.Since fixed-focus lenses require no input from the operator, they are suitable for use in cameras designed to be inexpensive, or to operate without electrical power as in disposable cameras, or in low-end 35 mm film point and shoot cameras, or in cameras featuring simple operation.

  7. Digital camera modes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera_modes

    One technique to make this easier to control is called back button focus: separating focus from the shutter control button by reassigning the AF-on function to a button on the back of the camera body. [8] Some models of a camera may have a dedicated AF-ON button, and menu options to disable the focus via shutter button half-press.

  8. Focusing screen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_screen

    The most common type of focusing screen in non-autofocus 35 mm SLR cameras is the split screen and microprism ring variation that aids focusing and became standard in the 1980s. The microprism ring breaks up the image unless the lens setting is in focus, the split screen shows part of the image split in two pieces.

  9. Focus (optics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(optics)

    A demonstration of camera focus on different distances, showing a bamboo rooftop Text on a page that is partially in focus, but mostly not in varying degrees. In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is a point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. [1]