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automatic focus

n
(Photography)
a. a system in a camera which automatically adjusts the lens so that the object being photographed is in focus, often one using infrared light to estimate the distance of the object from the camera
b. (as modifier): automatic-focus lens.
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I have been driving the 1.5 EcoBoost eightspeed automatic Focus Vignale which costs PS28,500 and with a few added extras PS31,270 - a considerable amount of cash for a Focus.
The main camera will reportedly feature AI Smart Zoom, moving object detection, automatic focus, and zoom tracking.
Drivers of an automatic Focus can even start the car via the app so it begins the defrosting process in winter.
Drivers of an automatic Focus can even start the car via the app, so it begins the defrosting process in winter.
The device combines a high acuity HD camera with high-quality optics and rapid automatic focus to produce super vision that is better than the human eye is capable of on its own.
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The Nikon D750 has 24 megapixels of resolution, automatic focus, Wi-Fi capabilities for real-time streaming to a smartphone/tablet/computer, and the first-ever tilting screen on a Nikon full frame camera.
Various mechanisms could explain the tachycardia; to us a plausible one is an ectopic automatic focus in the left side of the ventricular septum with the anti-tachycardia pacing changing the depolarization pathway of the ventricular tachycardia by concealed conduction into the pathway(s).
For one thing, it has all the conveniences that you're already used to like automatic focus, auto loading of film, the use of sophisticated flash units, and the use of different types of light metering.
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