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Does not auto-focus when flash is turned off

For some reason the camera does not auto-focus when the flash is set to off and all my pictures come out blurry. Any ideas?

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Anonymous

Look at this report from Target I found:
Lens-Focus Features: Manual Focus
it was on the description

Posted on Sep 02, 2008

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