The AF uses contrasts to determine of something is in focus or not. So you'll have to have something with a resonable sharp contrast in the area of focus. Like if you're trying to focus on a sheet of paper, the AF will fail, but if there's letters on it, it will succeed. I hope I wrote something intelligable :)

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