What is "multi-point autofocus"?
Standard autofocusing cameras focus in the center of the scene. You'll have either a cross or a box in the middle of the picture. That tells you where the camera's focusing. One of the cool, new features on the camera today is called multipoint or flexpoint auto focus. And, that's where the camera has three or five or six or nine or fifteen or twenty-two different boxes where the camera can focus. And, it's really cool – because you can set the camera to automatically pick the focus point or I, the photographer can manually through a thumb wheel adjust which of the points I want to put my focus. The whole point for multipoint auto focus is - I don't have to have the subject in the center of the camera anymore. I don't have to have the subject in the center of the picture to make the picture come into focus. If you think about – I'm gonna take a picture of you and your girlfriend, you're sitting there, and if I put the center of the picture – Where's the center of the picture? – right over your shoulder and how many times have you seen pictures of the wallpaper clear and the two people in the foreground are out of focus because the focus was in the center? With multipoint auto focus the camera will automatically find you, or I, as the photographer, will manually put the focus point where? – On my main subject – so that you're always in focus – and that's what we want.
