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	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In its second sense, the title refers to a camera mechanism and perhaps hints at the dire consequences, of which Crane’s life is a cautionary example, of becoming too deeply involved in the surrogate life of audio-visual technology (an early fan of video, Crane recorded his numerous sexual encounters on tape).
		Auto Focus is thus a critique of male narcissism.
		Although Auto Focus is consistently interesting, these refusals (and also that forbidding combination of negativity and formalism common to all Schrader’s films) leave it rather hollow.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02496643.htm (685 words)

	Amazon.com: Auto Focus (2002) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Auto Focus is a lot like an episode of Behind the Music, but with sex in the place of the usual downfall-causing drugs; though elegantly filmed, it doesn't delve too deeply into Crane's joy, and so never gets a genuine feel for his pain either.
		Auto Focus depicts Bob Crane as a practicing Catholic who fails to heed his church's warning that one must shun the occasions of sin.
		"Auto Focus" is the story of Bob Crane, an actor starring in "Hogan's Heroes" in the 60s, who seemed to have it all, only to die a violent and shocking death in a motel in Arizona in 1978.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000087F7O?v=glance (2220 words)

	Auto Focus
		The camera lens projects the image onto the image sensor, the AF module retrieves a portion of the image for the CPU to process the contrast information, and the CPU activates the auto focus motor to move the lens for focusing based on the processing result.
		As the lens moves to focus, the contrast level of the image increases.
		Since low light implies low contrast, one major drawback of the contrast detection method is that AF may fail in a poorly illuminated environment and one must fine a high contrast area to focus.
	www.cs.mtu.edu /~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/5700/AUTO-FOCUS/Auto-Focus.html (1360 words)

	Auto Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Auto Focus tells his ups and downs—his two marriages, and the many sexual encounters with his friend John Carpenter.
		Auto Focus would have been much better if Schrader could have kept the dark comedic tone of the beginning throughout by having Crane narrate more, especially when his life is going downhill.
		Although Auto Focus was a big disappointment at this year's New York Film Festival, it was fun to be in the crowd though and see Paul Schrader, William Dafoe, Rita Wilson (Mrs.
	www.geocities.com /fidelio1st/film/autofocus.html (538 words)

	ASI Video Auto-Focus - Applied Scientific Instrumentation
		Firmware algorithms attempt to maximize the "focus value" by adjusting the focal position with the MS-2000 Z-drive.
		Focus value readout - The focus value is always displayed on the LCD readout so you can easily verify correct operation.
		Focus algorithms to fit your need - Auto-focusing can be accomplished via push-button on the controller or with commands from the host computer.
	www.asiimaging.com /autofocus.html (212 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Auto Focus (2002)
		In praise of Auto Focus director Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese has said Schrader possesses a talent for adapting difficult source material to the screen because he unerringly hones in on the essence of the story and mercilessly strips away everything else.
		Auto Focus is not the story of making of Hogan's Heroes, an improbably successful situation comedy about clever Allied prisoners and their slow-witted German captors in a World War Two POW camp, and its six-year run on CBS (1965-1971).
		Auto Focus does not set out to be one of those message movies with histrionic acting and didactic homilies about the dangers of overindulgence.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/a/autofocus.htm (1187 words)

	Review: Auto Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Auto Focus is the story of the rise and fall of actor Bob Crane.
		The purpose of Auto Focus is not to solve the murder, but to explore the conditions leading up to it.
		Auto Focus is loaded with sex and nudity, as might be expected from a film with this subject matter, but Schrader manages to keep things at a level where we never sense a whiff of exploitation.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/auto_focus.html (768 words)

	Auto Focus
		As I watched the well-crafted bio on the life and still unresolved death of the beloved Colonel Hogan I wondered at just what demographic "Auto Focus" is aimed.
		Still, "Auto Focus" works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the Playboy era.
		"Auto Focus" is a fascinating tale, but Crane's blandness gives the film a curiously hollow heart.
	www.reelingreviews.com /autofocus.htm (1546 words)

	Auto Focus
		Auto focus systems utilize either an infa-red beam that reflects off the subject to measure distance, or an image focus technology that looks at the picture information and makes corrections based on that.
		If your auto focus will focus sharply on a newspaper headline hanging on a wall 15 feet away, it is working as designed.
		For those instances where focus is not satisfactory, turn the feature off and focus manually.
	www.hallesservice.com /autofocs.htm (191 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'Auto Focus'
		"Auto Focus" opens in the mid-1960s, when Crane was working as a disc jockey for a morning drive-time show at the Los Angeles radio station KNX.
		He isn't the sort of artist who could be accused of having a light touch, but in "Auto Focus" he's continually mixing the comedy in with the tragedy, playing with mood the way he plays with set design, costume and the performances.
		Not long after he got his first camera in "Auto Focus," Crane, a devotee of what his first wife (Rita Wilson) disgustedly calls "shady magazines," started frequenting strip clubs, where he sometimes sat in with the band.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-dargis18oct18,0,1563748.story (1434 words)

	AUTO FOCUS/ ***
		It turned him, claims Paul Schrader's "Auto Focus", from an affable family man with a moderately successful radio show into someone whose insides were filled with desperate confusion about how he was supposed to be acting.
		Step by plain and linear step, "Auto Focus" follows the downfall, through photography that opens with the bright colours of a happy comedy and ends with death in the murkiest of shadows.
		"Auto Focus" knows where it wants to go, takes us there dramatically, and at the end we walk out shaking our heads and thinking, jeez, is it that easy to become that much of a loser?
	www.ukcritic.com /autofocus.html (785 words)

	Auto Focus Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Though he is eventually tried and acquitted, Auto Focus doesn't bother with the niceties of reasonable doubt — according to its events, Carpenter's guilty.
		Auto Focus also tries to lay the blame for Crane's career misfortunes on his bad-boy behavior, pointing out that Disney dropped him when the studio heard rumors about his after-hours habits.
		Focus also had plenty of talent on-screen, with Greg Kinnear playing Crane and Willem Dafoe portraying John Carpenter, Crane's partner in perversion and the top suspect in his 1978 murder.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=134812 (1478 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Auto Focus
		Auto Focus is the story of Bob Crane, almost exclusively known as the star of Hogan's Heroes in the late 1960s.
		One of Auto Focus's most painfully nightmarish moments has Crane and Carpenter sitting in Crane's basement as he watches one of his exploits on video and together they try to figure out what city in which they banged her, masturbating all the while.
		Auto Focus is not the pile of garbage that Midnight is, but it's not much better.
	filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/24ce440d63ad0cfd88256c53007bb75c?OpenDocument (818 words)

	Salon Directory
		There's an important lesson to be learned from both the sad and sordid life of Bob Crane and Paul Schrader's movie about it, "Auto Focus": A cautionary tale is only as good as the actor who carries it on his back.
		In "Auto Focus" Kinnear pulls off the feat of making us feel something for Crane, the smirky but popular actor who starred in "Hogan's Heroes" from the series' beginning, in 1965, until its end, in 1971.
		Crane lives on in infamy, as well as in reruns: From the late '60s until his murder, in 1978, he amassed hours and hours' worth of pornographic videotape documenting his sexual encounters with a seemingly endless number of women -- women who were, we suppose, easily seduced by the power of his celebrity.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/10/18/auto_focus (846 words)

	Auto Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Auto Focus has no real plot, composed of a mishmash of scenes thematically concerned with Crane’s moral downfall.
		Auto Focus cracks its joke every ten minutes, with Carpenter making such boasts as “You’re all set up – eight watts of pumping power!” Through Carpenter, the movie is a veritable history of VCR technology as he moves from analog tapes to cumbersome home video cameras to monstrous cassettes, each time making the same joke.
		Ultimately, Auto Focus is little more than a cautionary tale about sex addiction, one that might have greater resonance were it not for the existence of Charlie Sheen who maintains a decent living today.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies5/AutoFocus.htm (894 words)

	Autofocus Problems Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the high end Canon EOS 1n, the AF "in-focus" signal was turned on at distances between 91 inches and 131 inches, or a 40 inch range of "in-focus" when used manually at 120 inches from the test chart (e.g., ten feet or 3.05 meters).
		Focus manually (preferably with a true manual focus camera and manual focus lens) on that subject using a 50mm setting on your zoom lens or a 50mm prime lens.
		AF for portraits is useless as you need to focus on the eyes and with the limited depth of field of most portrait lenses you can't have the AF system focus on the nose and maintain the DOF that you need and still the eyes won't be critically sharp.
	medfmt.8k.com /third/af.html (18731 words)

	DVD.net : Auto Focus: CE - DVD Review
		The real story in Auto Focus lies well behind the sheen of the public figure, and is far sadder and seedier than most could have believed, and remained largely unknown for most of Crane's life.
		Auto Focus is a film that is almost in two parts, but this is quite deliberate.
		Auto Focus is a sad story about a man who should have had it all - fame, wealth and happiness.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3340 (1715 words)

	Auto Focus (2002) Movie Review
		Crane was obviously what we’d now call a “sex addict,” but Auto Focus is strangely impassive in perusing his spiraling downfall into Sodom and how it destroys both his personal and professional life.
		The film looks on at the mess he has become without trying to really understand what is driving Crane to destruction… why he didn’t feel that it was wrong until it was too late… or even why it was wrong for him… except for in the broadest strokes.
		In the end, Auto Focus is a very interesting case study that just doesn’t dig quite deeply enough to make it brilliant.
	www.popentertainment.com /autofocus.htm (454 words)

	Catch Me If You Can, Auto Focus, Far From Heaven and the Art of Retro Title Sequences
		Auto Focus charts a course from the clean-cut home entertainment industry of 1964 Los Angeles to the deterioration of family values and the rise of home porn in late 1960s and 1970s America, its focus on actor Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) resurrecting the tradition of the celebrity biopic.
		The titling of Auto Focus certainly finds its stylistic inspiration in contemporary artefacts but the way they are used is a product of the post-modern era, bearing closer relation to such recent montages as those adorning the 1998 book, Atomic Cocktails.
		Whether films such as Catch Me If You Can and Auto Focus herald a new cycle of revisionist credit sequences remains to be seen, but there is no doubt that they represent inspiring additions to the varied and exciting developments that have occurred in film titling of recent years.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/26/retro_titles.html (2721 words)

	Slide projector tech tips: Auto-focus doesn't work
		Even if your remote control has a focus button that lets you electronically focus the projector, you may still have a model that doesn't have the auto-focus feature.
		On Telex/Singer projectors the switch is usually on the top where the carousel tray is placed near one of the corners, although on viewer models it is usually on the side.
		If your slides are extremely warped due to age or a poor slide mount, the auto-focus on your projector may not be able to focus the slide for you.
	www.unitedvisual.com /2tips/2tsli106.asp (575 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		There's a telling moment early on in Auto Focus, the accomplished film about Sixties television actor Bob Crane, whose sexual compulsions propelled his personal and professional life in a downward spiral until he was found bludgeoned to death in a Scottsdale, Ariz., motel room in 1978.
		Fascinating in every respect, Auto Focus portrays Crane's freefall into his carnal abyss without moral judgment, even when his self-destructive conduct disassociates him from everyone else in his life.
		And while not his most provocative film, Auto Focus is easily his most cohesive and, perhaps, one of his most honest works.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:141675 (645 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Auto Focus [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Auto Focus captures the scandalous private life of Bob Crane, best known as the star of German POW camp sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
		Auto Focus is a lot like an episode of VH-1's Behind the Music, but with sex in the place of the usual downfall-causing drugs; though elegantly filmed, it doesn't delve too deeply into Crane's joy, and so never gets a genuine feel for his pain either.
		AUTO FOCUS depicts the professional self-immolation of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009PBSG (1217 words)

	Easy Reader Auto Focus Optical System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Very fast auto focus adjustment (less than 0.5 seconds).
		Navitar’s Auto Focus systems are ideal for imaging objects with varying feature heights.
		The DSP technology used to adjust focus eliminates the need to move the optical system or object to regain sharp focus.
	www.navitar.com /zoom/autofocus_gen.htm (224 words)

	Salon Directory
		"Auto Focus" is so well-intentioned, and so sympathetic toward its subject, that I found myself reaching out toward it instinctively -- to close down to it would only seem inhumane.
		But he's still damn lucky, as Schrader is, to have Greg Kinnear around to give it the shape and heft it just doesn't have on its own.
		"Auto Focus" never presumes to suggest that if you hide porn in your garage, you'll turn into a sex addict like Bob Crane.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/10/18/auto_focus/index.html (846 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, there is nothing to it with the `'Auto Focus Motor".
		Then train the focus / composition frame on your main subject and press the focus lock l button After making some sound, the camera will prefocus on main subject and lock in the focus.
		When the focus lock button is not used, the distant background scene will be in focus and the main subject will be blurred as is evident from the accompanying illustration.
	www.butkus.org /chinon/yashica_focus/yashica_focus-2.htm (1292 words)

	Auto Focus for Laser Engraver
		Focusing the laser beam is simply a matter of moving the table up and down to ensure the work piece is the correct distance from the lens.
		Standard on all Epilog laser systems, the Auto Focus uses magnetic plunger technology to precisely position the table automatically with every job.
		As an added bonus, our Auto Focus technology is fully compatible with our optional Rotary Attachment.
	www.epiloglaser.com /auto_focus.htm (132 words)

	Auto Focus
		From Paul Schrader, the acclaimed director of Affliction, The Comfort of Strangers, American Gigolo, Blue Collar and Cat People, and the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, comes Auto Focus, an absorbing glimpse into the colourful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane.
		(Auto Focus is a fascinating chronicle of American male sexual identity in the sixties and seventies.) Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978.
		Adapted by Michael Gerbosi from Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane, and starring Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, and Rita Wilson, Auto Focus explores the heights and depths of Crane's unique life with intensity, style and wit.
	www.mongrelmedia.com /films/AutoFocus.html (199 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Auto Focus
		From Robert De Niro washing the scum off the streets in "Taxi Driver" to Richard Gere strutting through 80s excess in "American Gigolo", he has an unerring ability to puncture the American underbelly.
		"Auto Focus" zooms in on Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), tracking the real-life TV star from button-down family man to broken-down, sex-obsessed has-been.
		A radio presenter and jobbing actor, Crane gets his big break when he risks taking the title role in Hogan's Heroes, a controversial, then hugely popular, 60s sitcom set in a World War II POW camp.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/02/13/auto_focus_2003_review.shtml (408 words)

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