[OT]Any way to fool autofocus??

Janko wrote:

What I'd really like to know
is if anyone knows a way to "tweak" it so I can make pictures with
different settings, what I'd like to achieve is taking pictures with a
chosen Depth of Field.

You need to fool the metering correctly as well, if you want
to influence the aperture.
= AF-lock, AE-lock

However, the DoF of a P&S is huge anyway you do it.
Stopping down very soon degrades the image quality even as
the DoF expands even further.

-Wolfgang