How to focus on Xiaomi smartphone at close range?

Let's take a look at the "shiatsu" focusing mode that comes with the mobile phone camera.

After turning on the phone camera, tap the screen with your finger for 2-3 seconds. Slight vibration, the sign of "focus frame+metering frame" will appear on the screen. As shown below, the big circle outside is the focus frame, and the small circle inside is+? This is a light box.

While the "Focus Frame+Photometric Frame" sign appears, the caption "Drag the Focus Frame and Photometric Frame to Adjust the Focus Point and Photometric Point respectively" will briefly appear on the screen (as shown above). This title tells us that the focus and metering point are separate and independent. Different scene parts can be selected for focusing and photometry respectively. The following legend,

The "shiatsu" focusing mode of mobile phone camera is very suitable for shooting scenes where the focus and metering point are not in the same place. As shown in the figure below. Choose nearby mantis as the focus, and the sun with high light spot as the metering point.

In the "More" menu of the mobile phone camera, the "Finger Press" focusing mode of the mobile phone camera is only available in HDR mode, Professional mode, time-lapse photography, slow motion, black-and-white camera and other modes. But it doesn't work in night view, panoramic view and streamer shutter mode.

Second, learn to get used to the convenient and quick "finger click" focusing mode.

"Finger-click" focusing mode refers to the part of the mobile phone screen that you need to focus and measure light before clicking the shutter button as "focus point+measuring point". As shown in the legend below, the left picture is the default photometry chart, and the right picture is taken after the finger clicks on the left stamen (red circle in the middle picture).

In the "finger-click" focusing mode, the focus point and the metering point are in the same place, and the focus point is also the metering point. Compared with the "finger pressing method" of a mobile phone camera, the "finger clicking method" responds to the "focus+photometry" of the subject faster and more agile, that is, it can be changed at any time. It is very suitable for shooting scenes where the focus and photometric points are synchronized and juxtaposed. "Finger click" is also the most commonly used way to shoot on my mobile phone (especially close-up and macro shooting). Next, tap the mantis's head on the mobile phone screen with "finger click method" to shoot "brown quiet mantis".

"Finger-click method" is suitable for most shooting modes in the "More" menu of mobile phone cameras, including: night scene, panorama, streamer shutter and other modes.

Third, the mobile phone camera shoots objects at close range in "professional" mode. Appears when the focusing function file AF is selected as a manual MF file in the "Professional" mode of the mobile phone camera (as shown in the figure below, yellow arrow on the right). As shown below, the "little flower" sign in the box indicated by the yellow arrow on the left is customarily called macro shooting, but its essence is close-range shooting. At this time, the autofocus function of the mobile phone camera has been turned off. Adjust the focus of the close-up subject by drawing a blue block (represented by a blue arrow) on the arrangement line.

Fourthly, when practicing shooting, I personally prefer to focus on shooting close-up objects with a mobile phone camera: finger click+close-up shooting distance+digital zoom.

Mobile phone camera: Close-range shooting+appropriate digital zoom can not only make the mobile phone camera easily shoot close-range objects, but also realize macro shooting of the mobile phone camera without adding an external lens.

Mobile phone camera: close-range shooting+appropriate digital zoom, combined with "finger click method", can shoot close-range (or macro) objects, which can be completed more quickly and in real time according to the size and shooting intention of the subject: focusing+metering, which is more flexible and casual, especially suitable for shooting some tiny subjects (such as insects). ).