How to set Camera AE/AF lock on a distant object?
With iOS5.0.1 The Camera AutoExposure/AutoFocus can be locked by holding your finger on the AE/AF square in the image till the lock is set.
Is there any way to set AE/AF Lock on the iPhone 4S or iPad 2 camera on something in the distance beyond a chain link netting closer to me?
Imagine trying to focus on something on the other side of a chain link fence?
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I moved up from using fixed focus helmet cams such as my Contour HD 1080p and my friends GoPro helmet cams to using my iPhone 4S and my iPad 2 to video youth hockey games with puck smears on the plexiglass and rather heavy fishnet mesh above the plexiglass that is used to keep the puck in the rink.
I have been using the pre game warm up time to look in through the glass at a player entrance door to focus on the distant goal and lock the AE/AF.
I had hoped that there was some way of locking the auto focus into what would mimic a fixed focus Helmet Cam.
Is this fixed focus setting available on any of the alternative cameras available such as Camera+, Top Camera, or others?
Looks like I get to buy what cameras there are to research this some more.
by John Foster
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