Help w/ Olympus Evolt 330

[folss]

i just recently bought an Olympus Evolt 330 that came with a 14-45 mm lens.
i still don't know how all the functions work ... but when I use the manual focus it seems that nothing changes when i try to focus in on a single subject and blur the background... what am i doing wrong?

[mwfanelli2]

i just recently bought an Olympus Evolt 330 that came with a 14-45 mm lens.
i still don't know how all the functions work ... but when I use the manual focus it seems that nothing changes when i try to focus in on a single subject and blur the background... what am i doing wrong?

Manual focus means just that: you have to do the focusing by hand.

You'll get a much better response in the Olympus forum on this site.

[Frog]

If you want a blurred background, you need a larger f/stop. Larger f/stops have a small number and small f/stops have bigger numbers.

[Greg McCary]

The focus ring will not work unless the camera is set to manual focus, just setting the camera to manual will not work. As Frog stated you change the f'/stop by pressing the +/- button down while turning the thumb wheel. That changes the depth of field.