Turning the AF tracking off?

ok so i have found this to be a pain in the bum when i am composing a picture. I have found an area to focus on, say a lizards head, i press the shutter half way to "lock the settings and focus" then i recompose the shot, say puting the lizards dead in the far bottom corner of the frame. Once i do that my focus changes from the lizards head to anything it pointing at. Now i have been looking through the manuel i cant really find anything, i have been going through all my settings but am sure am missing something

How do i turn it off?

Do you want to manual focus?

not really, i just want my focus lock once i have pressed the shutter half way, my sony does this fine but i cant seem to figure it out on the d200

Check this out. Any time you have a question just Google it as in "D200 Focus Lock". Answer: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d20...tom-timers.htm

thanks i just found, so many buttons and switches it confuses me!

I know it can be very overwhelming. Just take one feature at a time and put it to use. When I bought my D90 I had no clue what it would do. Here's a big help site Bazza told us about: http://imaging.nikon.com/products/im...d200/index.htm

I took the liberty of dialing in your camera. As I learned the features of my D90 I discovered how very powerful they were and committed some of the most important one to memory. It all takes time. Don't stop asking questions.

wow thanks for that its a big help am getting there, will post pictures up soon

Lot of people doing close up macro work use manual focus...not to say you have to.

Haylee, on the front of your camera you have a small focus selector by the lens release button. It sounds like you have it set on 'C' continuous instead of 'S' single so that every time you try to recompose it changes to focus to where you are pointing the camera.

Just turn it to the 'S' position.

Jeff

It can be hard getting used to a new camera good luck!

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