A manual was not found (this is all volunteer so feel free to supply the manual) so look for MANUAL FOCUS. Auto focus does indeed fail at times and when that happens we change to manual focusing.
Bob
Hello all,
This is my first message here.
I have a Sony HDR-PJ790V and when I zoom in to a small object like a toy action figure of my childs it always loses focus after zooming in past a certain point. I want to be able to capture the detail in high def, but it goes out of focus from zooming in too far. Any suggestions?

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