Great. Thank you all. I had navigated to Focus but not to what you all have described. She's in hospital til next Thursday at least so I will now get busy trying to solve this for her so she's got something to play with when she gets back.

that makes sense. What term/s would deal with this so i can go to the right section of the manual. Exposure? Focus?

Hi all. I have a request.
My wife has a Sony A6300. She has a Sony Macro lens. She's having trouble focussing this.
I have the manual and am investigating.
However, i am stuck on a definition. I will try to explain:
When you point at what you want to shoot, an area of the screen pixellates, sort of. It looks like if you were watching the Weather Channel when they overlay rain over an area.
I've been told that this represents an area that the lens can't resolve, and this makes sense to me.
What I would appreciate is someone telling me what terms in the manual might describe this so that I can go to that section and try to fix this. Thank you.

Fires in Western Australia didn't put any smoke in Sydney - we're thousands of miles from there 😊

Love that.

Is no 4 the side of a fish shop? Sells some of the catch that the boats that live there bring back each day? A while since I've been up there.

Having mine done end-November after 2 years of postponements. Thanks for all the useful info.

Thank you for that info. I have the manual, and was looking at it on her PC while looking through the camera. I did not know what Peaking was - I think there were 87 instances of Viewfinder but not knowing what I was seeing, Peak did not grab my attention.

This now is interesting because removing the "annoyance", so to speak, is really shooting yourself in the foot, because it is telling you very useful information. Turn it off, and you see a pretty picture in the viewfinder and have an out-of-focus shot when you get home?
As someone said above, a very useful tool.
Thank you again.

My wife has this camera. We went out yesterday to photograph orchids in a local bush reserve.

Her viewfinder has this weird (to me) display of "borders around objects, filled in with zebra stripes".

I don't know any other way to describe it. Maybe it looks like when you see a weather map with lines around areas of equal pressure?

I scanned through the directory in her manual but as I don't even know what to call this, I couldn't find anything to illuminate me.

Something that says "this is not in focus, but this other bit is?" Maybe.?

She was using her Sony macro lens, but I tried this morning with her Tamron zoom and it shows the same, if perhaps a little less. She may have pressed a button or switched a switch but she doesn't know and can't tell me what.

Can anyone begin to guess what this effect is and how I research it more?

I think there are 2 different things being talked about here as if they are one and the same. A US citizen needs to clarify this but with regard to the TSA Pre itself, it is an assessment that they dont need to waste ad much time with you. I am Australian and my US tickets are TSA-Pre. Maybe because I come up on US Int systems as former Navy?

I can't abide tbe entire blighted continent other than the Mahgreb (where i spent many months) but my wife found Kenya-then-Tanzania ideal for wildlife watching. This was when she had a tiny point and shoot so not a lot to show for it.

I use it. First time through it's good and gets rid of the obvious. Saves a lot of time. Not so good with subsequent passes but you need to remember its just nailed a huge amount of work you don't have to do. I think it's a yearly subscription but from my point of view, it's done its job already so I don't need to continue.

My wife and I travelled extensively on our yacht and when visiting any city it was always 1. Museum 2. Art Gallery then 3. Gardens. I took a zoom and my 90mm macro. The zoom is my 18-400 Tamron, for its light weight, not my 28-300 Canon.

Many gardens give you the opportunity to get up close, like the orchid room of Marie Selby in Sarasota, or the cactii hothouse in the Jardin Real in Madrid. I'm sure there are many more. Those 2 lenses were sufficient. No tripod (many places do not permit)

Gardens everywhere! I can't get enough of them. Last year I went all the way to northern Portugal to visit the gardens of the Mateus Rose Estate.

Ok, thank you for all the responses.

It is indeed an error on my part. I thought I had wound the shutter back to single shot, and, looking at the display, thought that "Single Shot" meant one. I now understand that there is more meaning conveyed in that, and there are permutations within that single shot.

I couldn't find what I was doing wrong because there are hundreds of "hits" on how to do bursts but there are no hits on how not to do bursts. Obviously, it's not something people search for.

Thanks for all the explanations.

I thought I posted this earlier today but it's nowhere to be seen now so here goes again.

My 5D IV shutter is taking 2 shots on the majority of my presses. Say better than 50/50, one press of the shutter results in 2 shots. I have had it at burst speed for some bird photos, but returned it to Single shot.

I don't know whether it is my aging fingers not having the controls of yesteryear, or there is a setting I have missed that allows the camera to double up?? Is there a "sensitive" setting? Or is it just me being a Klutz?

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