Originally posted by landofcourtness Hello,
This has been a problem that I've had with my K-1 (it might happen with my K-3/5, but I just don't remember it happening)... and I cannot find the setting that makes this happen. Thought I would try here.
Problem:
While the camera is in AF (the physical switch on camera), the camera will not allow you to take a picture unless something in the frame is 'in-focus'. So that if it is blurry in any way, you can press the shutter button, and the camera will not respond. But if you were to manually focus until something is 'in-focus' (red-lights flash and all, if enabled), then it does allow. Sometimes however, even when (I think things are) in focus it won't take the picture. That's when it is truly annoying. And this situation also occurs sometimes with AF-lenses too, during moments where my AF can't find (or thinks it isn't in focus). If I switch the physical switch to MF, the camera is allowed to fire whenever I want, and the problem goes away.
I was just wondering what setting is stopping this? And/or if there was a way to over-ride this function... so that I can take a blurry photo, if I wanted to.
Hope this makes sense?
Yes you can change that setting.
But I have to ask....why would you want to take an un-focussed picture ? I know there are plenty of artistic reasons for doing so, but in those cases you would be using manual focus to achieve your aim.
btw the setting is to change AF-S from focus priority to release priority