Hallo!
I try to write a script, that takes some pictures of the night sky. It works fine, but i have some problems with focus. At night there is definitely not enough light for the auto focus, so i would like to set the focus manual on infinite.
I could set the object distance in CHDK itself before I start the script and I think, this would work fine, but I would prefer to set it by the script itself.
The good old IXUS 50 has no MF-Options and so it is difficult to set it by scripts. I tried a lot and searched manual sites and example scripts on the internet but they all don't work propperly on the IXUS 50.
What I found was more or less the following:
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set_focus 65000
shoot
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But it was absolutely no effect. AF is still active and camera doesn't focus on infinity. I read a lot about property values and found prop 12 - Manual focus. mode I can set prop 12 to 1 and after taking a picture and "MF" is shown together with the other properties. But no effect on the focus. I also tried some things with Prop 11 but also nothing.
It semms t me that on other cameras this should work or did I miss something important?
Has somebody of you some experience with the IXUS 50 and can help me with this problem?
Much thanks
Schmidti
