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Cross type AF points in EOS 7D

Posted on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:41:51 GMT in Photography by Andre

My good old film EOS SII has just a single auto-focus (AF) point and can only focus on vertical or diagonal lines because its AF point had only one bar of photosensitive elements. New SLR cameras have cross type AF points that have two lines of photosensitive elements forming a cross, which allows such cameras to focus on vertical or horizontal lines.