52 Part I: Fast Track to Super Snaps Taking the Shot: The Basic Recipe After you set up your camera as described in the preceding section, the pro- cess of taking a picture is pretty much the same as with any fully automatic, point-and-shoot camera you may have used. The biggest variation is that you can choose to focus manually instead of sticking with autofocus. Follow these steps to frame, focus, and shoot: 1. Set the focus mode (manual or automatic). You set the mode through the Focus mode selector switch, shown in Figure 2-5. For manual focusing, set the switch to M; for autofocusing, choose S, as shown in the figure. The S stands for single-servo autofocus. Check out Chapter 6 for complete details on this Lens focus mode switch