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Lovely little camera hack there I found via the Pictage forums, with a connecting flight at Chris Humphrey’s blog. I won’t share it here though.

Just kidding. This thing made too much of my day not to share. Basically, using Canon’s custom function menus (No. 18 to be exact), you change the button that initiates focus from the typical half-shutter press to the * button located on the back of the camera. Then, instead of half-pressing, you use the good ol’ thumb (ever so conveniently placed in the same place anyway) to initiate focus — this kinda eliminates those hiccups when the camera locked focus, but didn’t “lock,” thusly preventing you from taking the picture.

And oh yea, if you throw the camera into “continuous” auto-focus mode, wonderful things start happening with that focus hit-rate. Yea. Seriously. This trick is like buying a new camera (although, not so quite like having a body with 45 or 51 auto focus points…).

Thanks Chris. Much appreciated. Funny thing is, he put this post up like the very same weekend I was leaving the day job. Talk about full circle.

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